Lucira Covid-19 test is first to get FDA nod for home use
The authorization comes as Covid-19 testing demand threatens to swamp U.S. labs. However, it will take time for the Lucira test to become available nationwide.
Medical voice assistant Suki raises $20M
Medical voice assistant startup Suki closed a $20 million funding round. Flare Capital Partners led the round, and co-founder Bill Geary will join Suki’s board.
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Sutter Health settles for $575M in antitrust lawsuit
After the California Attorney General brought complaints of anticompetitive behavior against Sutter Health, the Sacramento-based health system will pay $575 million in a settlement.
Surprise settlement occurs in Sutter Health antitrust case
The case was expected to have nationwide implications on how hospital systems negotiate prices with insurers. If the plaintiffs prevailed, Sutter was expected to face damages of up to $2.7 billion.
Hospital giant Sutter Health faces legal reckoning over medical pricing
A long-awaited class-action lawsuit against Sutter is set to open Sept. 23 in San Francisco Superior Court where the plaintiffs seek up to $900 million in damages for overpayments that they attribute to the hospital giant.
Sutter Health settles Medicare Advantage upcoding case for $30 million
Sutter Health was allegedly involved in a practice called upcoding, which refers to the submission of incorrect or exaggerated information about the health status of a beneficiary in order to receive a higher payout from CMS.
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DOJ joins suit against Sutter Health for Medicare Advantage overcharging
A whistleblower report alleged Sutter Health submitted unsupported diagnosis codes to inflate the risk scores of its Medicare Advantage beneficiaries.
Will lawsuit against Sutter Health be a reckoning for health systems charging high prices?
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s suit amounts to a giant test case with the potential for national repercussions. If California prevails and is able to tame prices at Northern California’s most powerful, dominant health system, regulators and politicians in other states are likely to follow.
Quartet and Sutter Health bridge the gap between mental and physical healthcare
Sutter physicians will use Quartet's technology to help mental health patients access the right specialists. The joint effort will also foster a collaborative environment to ongoing care.
Google Glass gains headway in healthcare
Google Glass is back, and systems like Dignity Health and Sutter Health are making use of it to help providers save valuable time.
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Couple donates $20 million to encourage innovation at Sutter Health
Michael and Judith Gaulke, a Silicon Valley couple, has given $20 million to establish the Michael and Judith Gaulke Innovation Hatchery Endowment Fund at Sutter Health.
The medical testing overload and how California healthcare organziations are addressing it
Three of the California's largest healthcare purchasers have banded together to promote care that’s safer and more cost-effective.
What have health systems learned from ransomware attacks?
Panelists at CableLabs' Inform[ED] Connected Healthcare conference in New York this week agreed that ransomware attacks are an issue every hospital has to contend with.
Data starts flowing within Carequality Interoperability Framework
This week, Sutter Health added 12 practices to its list of interoperability partners, all with eClinicalWorks EHRs. Sutter, which uses Epic, has been exchanging data among about a dozen area practices on athenahealth's EHR since July 1.
Genetics company Counsyl targets oncologists in bid to boost patient screening
The goal of this new initiative is to make it easier for oncologists to have their patients tested for genetic mutations linked to cancer.