Florida Hospital closing small and unique hospice care
For the last 6 years, a quaint, six-room home called the Robison Residence has been offering unique hospice care to low-income and homeless patients of Central Florida. The one-story house is part of...
View ArticleUnitedHealthcare Joins Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers to Establish...
UnitedHealthcare and the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers have declared a $15 million strategic partnership to establish, test and scale new models of care for patients with complex health,...
View ArticleVeracyte Finalizes Medicare Coverage Policies for Percepta Bronchial Genomic...
Veracyte, Inc., a genomic diagnostics company concentrated on decreasing unnecessary surgeries and healthcare charges by resolving diagnostic uncertainty, today declared that Palmetto GBA, a Medicare...
View ArticleGoldberg Law PC Declares the Filing of a Securities Class Action Lawsuit...
Goldberg Law PC, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, declares the filing of a class action lawsuit against Aetna Inc. (“Aetna” or the “Company”) concerning potential violations of federal...
View ArticleHumana declares 69% decline in Obamacare customers
A major insurer on the day of Wednesday reported a major drop in the number of Obamacare customers it has. Humana reported in its latest 4th quarter 2016 earnings Wednesday that complete enrollment in...
View ArticleHome health-care: Humana 500 workers to be lay off in Ohio and Florida
About Humana 500 workers in home health-care unit will be eliminated in the time period of early April, a company official claimed on the day of Wednesday. The job action has nothing to do with the...
View ArticleER expansion increases immediate access to emergency care in East Texas
Individuals in East Texas now have more immediate access to emergency care all credit goes to a $900,000 expansion at Christus St. Michael Hospital in the region of Atlanta, Texas. The enlarged...
View ArticleThe Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare Congratulates Tom Price on...
The Partnership for Quality Home Healthcare – a coalition of home health providers committed to making better the quality, integrity, and efficiency of home healthcare for the seniors of our nation –...
View ArticleHumana confronts loss of $401M, Medicare plan headaches
Humana Inc. has already cut back on the sales of individual huge medical insurance market, and now it claims it is confronting issues in the private Medicare plan market. The Louisville, Kentucky-based...
View ArticleNxGen MDx Declares National Agreement with Aetna
NxGen MDx, a company that gives creative genetic testing solutions, declared today about the national agreement that its genetic screening and non-invasive pre-natal testing will be available on an...
View ArticleNew York Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) offers image exchange
A regional health information organization (RHIO) exchange is expanding capabilities beyond just sharing data to enabling providers to exchange radiological images. HealtheConnections, a regional...
View ArticleBCBSA’s Scott Serota Merges with Brain Research Foundation (BRF) Board of...
Brain Research Foundation (BRF) recently declared that Scott Serota, president and chief executive officer of Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), has merged with its board of directors. “Scott...
View ArticleBon Secours Medical Group terminates agreement with UnitedHealthcare
Bon Secours Medical Group, the physician practice arm of Bon Secours St. Francis Health System, has terminated its agreement with UnitedHealthcare, impacting thousands of sufferers. The hospital...
View ArticleHumana Awarded One Year $3.8B Tricare Managed Service Agreement Extension
The Defense Health Agency has granted Humana a 1-year, $3.80 billion “bridge” Tricare managed service agreement extension to extend the healthcare delivery services of company under the Tricare Health...
View ArticleThe pick of Trump to lead CMS has concerns over electronic health records
If Seema Verma, President Trump’s nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), is self-assured by the Senate, she’ll seek to modernize the programs of CMS to better deal the...
View ArticleCalifornia’s 12,209,605 Medicaid/CHIP Enrollees Outnumber Populations of 44...
Several people enrolled in Medicaid/CHIP in the region of California alone exceeds the total populations of 44 of the other states of the union, in accordance to data released by the Centers for...
View ArticleAetna doubled its dividend, declares additional share buyback
Aetna doubled its dividend and declares additional share buyback or repurchases Friday. The announcement followed news previously in the week the health insurance company will terminate its merger with...
View ArticleAnthem and Cigna contain allegations of sabotage, harassment: Top 5 takeaways...
In accordance to a Bloomberg report, Indianapolis-based Anthem and Bloomfield, Conn.-based Cigna blamed each other for sabotage in recent lawsuits filed after a U.S. District Court blocked their...
View ArticleHow the use of real-time location system technology turned around clinic’s...
Patients used to wait as long as 2 hours to see a physician at the Nor-Lea Medical Clinic. Workflow problems and the size of the clinic were leading to long waits and unhappy sufferers. Although, the...
View ArticleAetna Eliminates Prior Authorization for Suboxone and Other Opioid Addiction...
Aetna has declared that it will no longer need doctors to seek prior authorization before prescribing opioid addiction medicines used to treat opioid addiction. The change, which will apply to all of...
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