Cigna declares new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), promotes other execs
Highlights: Cigna has promoted 3 company officials to its ELT (enterprise leadership team), effective instantly. Eric Palmer, current deputy chief financial officer, will become new Chief Financial...
View ArticleCarencro center achieves Urgent Care Certification
The Urgent Care Association of America has designated and given the Lafayette General Urgent Care Center (UCC) at Carencro as a certified urgent care provider. The Urgent Care Centers of Lafayette...
View ArticleLenovo Health, Orbita inaugurates voice-enabled home health assistant
Lenovo Health has partnered with Orbita, a connected home healthcare technology vendor, to disclose a virtual home care system at HIMSS17 based on 2 recently debuted products: Lenovo Smart Assistant...
View ArticleSMARTPHONES MAY SOON HELP IN DIAGNOSTICS, DISEASE MANAGEMENT
The cell phone in your pocket might soon assist you to diagnose and monitor diseases. As mobile phones become more modern, advanced and ubiquitous, researchers are seeking technologies embedded within...
View ArticleHumble Surgical Hospital reports for bankruptcy after $51.4 Million Aetna loss
Humble Surgical Hospital filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on the day of Feb. 23, after a judge ordered the hospital to pay Aetna $51.4 million in an out-of-network billing case in the month of December....
View ArticleMethodist Healthcare Steps into the New Contract with Humana
Humana Medicare Advantage members in the Memphis now have access to Methodist Healthcare, credit goes to a new contract between the health system and health and well-being leader Humana Inc. The new...
View ArticlePatient Knowledge affects the Utilization of ED, Urgent Care Services
Patients require more education to assist them determine whether to access care in urgent care services centers or the emergency department (ED), in accordance to a survey by New York City-based urgent...
View ArticleRocky Mountain Health Plans and UnitedHealthcare Ultimately finalizes the sale
UnitedHealthcare closed Thursday on its acquisition of Rocky Mountain Health Plans, offering the greatest preferred-provider organization of Colorado a stronghold on the state’s Western Slope — an area...
View ArticleHumana job cuts were significant part of backup plans if acquisition failed
Executives at the agency of Louisville-based health insurer Humana and its rival Aetna made backup plans, involving the changes to reassign and Humana job cuts, in the event their $37 billion...
View ArticleCigna modifies course, claims Anthem merger should be given approval
Highlights: Cigna submitted a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals on the day of Thursday in which it deferred to the conclusion in Anthem’s appellate brief that the court ruling that blocked their $54...
View ArticleUnited Healthcare to be acquiring Syracuse Pomco Group
United Healthcare Group is acquiring Syracuse Pomco Group, an insurance administrator that hires almost 400 individuals at its headquarters in Eastwood. Syracuse Pomco Group and United Healthcare...
View ArticleHome Health Fraudsters Pleads Guilty to Fraud Charges of $2.4M
Co-owners and operators of 7 home health care agencies in the region of Miami-Dade County, Florida, plead guilty to fraud charges for their positions in a home health scheme totaling $20 million. Home...
View ArticleHumana partners with Quartet to make better mental healthcare for New Orleans...
Google-backed Quartet Health, which utilizes technology to enhance collaborative care for mental health conditions, will work with Humana to make better the mental and physical health of New Orleans...
View ArticleHumana, Fresenius Medical Care Joins to Make better the Health of Kidney...
Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA), a division of Fresenius Medical Care declared today that it is merging forces with Humana Inc. in a latest program designed to make better the care and...
View ArticleHope Warshaw Merges with WellDoc® in the Consultative Role
Digital health technology leader, WellDoc®, declared today that Hope Warshaw, MMSc, RD, CDE, BC-ADM, a famous and respected spokesperson who is passionate about making better the clinical and cost...
View ArticleMinneapolis-based Children’s Minnesota terminates contract with BCBS
Minneapolis-based Children’s Minnesota has terminated its agreement with Eagan-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, a decision that could outcome in more than 70,000 sufferers losing...
View ArticleHome Health Care Worker Blamed for Theft
The Police of Knoxville are inquiring a theft including a home health care worker. In accordance to a tragedy report obtained, the theft occurred sometime between February 21 and 22nd at a home on...
View ArticleThe Ensign Group Inc. Achieves Hospice Operations in Prescott Valley, Arizona
The Ensign Group Inc., the parent company of the Ensign™ group of skilled nursing, rehabilitative care services, hospice care, home health care and assisted living companies, declared today that on the...
View ArticleKey things to know over Aetna price tag for failed Humana merger
Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna has shouldered various costs following the insurer’s decision to scrap its $37 billion merger contract with Louisville, Ky.-based Humana after a court ruled the deal...
View ArticleAccountable Care Organizations (ACOs) decreased medical charges without...
A primary component of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) victoriously saved Medicare $345 each person in medical costs in its 1st year without driving up prescription drug coverage costs, in accordance to...
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