This week, UnitedHealth Group faced two new investigations from federal lawmakers. The first was a senator’s probe into its Medicare Advantage billing practices, and the second was a Congressman's investigation into a decline in care quality at Optum-owned clinics in New York.
On Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission released its second interim staff report on prescription drug middlemen. The report examines the impact of PBMs (specifically CVS Caremark, Express Scripts and Optum Rx) on specialty generic drugs, highlighting substantial price markups by PBMs on medications for cancer, HIV and other conditions.
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December saw a slew of executive hires, promotions, exits and layoffs across the healthcare industry. For example, companies like Humana and Mayo Clinic hired new C-suite leaders, organizations including Atlantic Health System and Amwell are saying goodbye to key executives, and firms like CVS Health and Optum announced rounds of job cuts.
There has been a surge in digital mental health solutions, making it difficult to know which ones are effective. One Optum exec weighed in on how she's managing this challenge.
Mental health experts are hopeful about the de-stigmatization of behavioral health, the promise of AI and other areas, they shared at a recent conference.
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, exits, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
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Here is a selection of recent executive hires, retirements, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, retirements, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, promotions, retirements and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
A new report by Paubox calls for healthcare IT leaders to dispose of outdated assumptions about email security and address the challenges of evolving cybersecurity threats.
Optum is shutting down its virtual care unit after a three-year run. Industry experts agree that the closure reflects broader trends in the telehealth market, in which saturation and differentiation challenges are leading some providers to struggle.
The U.S. Department of Justice has reportedly recently launched an antitrust investigation of UnitedHealth Group, which begs the question of whether the healthcare giant should be broken up. Experts have varying opinions.
The aftermath the cyberattack on Change Healthcare remains messy, with patients across the country still struggling to obtain their prescriptions. The federal government has even stepped in to help address the fallout of the attack, urging payers to quickly alleviate the digital bottlenecks that providers and pharmacies are facing.
Pharmacies across the country are facing disruptions following a cyberattack on Change Healthcare — which is owned by Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group. In a filing with the SEC, UnitedHealth stated that the unauthorized party that gained access to Change Healthcare's systems was a “suspected nation-state associated cyber security threat actor."
This year's HLTH conference brought a bevy of news announcements — from partnerships to new product features to acquisitions and more. In this list, MedCity News compiled short summaries for 11 of the conference's most notable announcements.