Lawmakers Grill Health Insurance CEOs: 4 Key Takeaways
During two House hearings, health insurance CEOs were questioned on rising healthcare costs, vertical integration and prior authorization.
Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires, Exits and Layoffs
July has seen a slew of executive hires, exits and layoffs across the healthcare sector. For example, Aledade and Teladoc Health welcomed new executives, and DexCom and Community Health Systems announced that their CEOs are departing. There were also layoffs at organizations including Best Buy Health, the VA and Sarepta Therapeutics.
How Artera is Using Agentic AI to Humanize Patient Care
Artera President Tom McIntyre talks about the practical application of AI in healthcare.
Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires, Exits and Layoffs
May has seen a slew of executive hires, exits and layoffs across the healthcare industry. For example, the American Medical Association and TigerConnect named new CEOs, and Google and UnitedHealth Group have seen key executives leave their roles. There were also layoffs at organizations including Devoted Health and New York-Presbyterian.
UnitedHealth Hit with 2 New Federal Probes in 1 Week
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.
4 Lessons We Learned From The Change Healthcare Cyberattack
Healthcare industry leaders think there is much to learn from the Change Healthcare cyberattack, and they hope the sector can apply these lessons to prevent a hack like this from ever happening again. Overall, the chaotic aftermath of the attack underscores the dire need for a more unified approach to cybersecurity within the healthcare sector.
Answering 7 Key Questions About Change Healthcare’s Cyberattack
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.
The Mechanics of a More Connected Healthcare Ecosystem [Video]
Arbiter’s Anjali Jameson on hospital and payer alignment.
Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires and Layoffs
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires and Layoffs
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
Healthcare Moves: A Monthly Summary of Hires and Layoffs
Here is a selection of recent executive hires, promotions and layoffs occurring across the healthcare industry.
With whopping $100M investment, UnitedHealth Group seeks to tackle workforce crisis and lack of diversity
The $100 million investment will sponsor 10,000 clinicians from underrepresented racial groups who are pursuing or advancing careers in healthcare. It is the single largest philanthropic commitment ever made by the United Health Foundation.
Beyond Analytics: How Sellers Dorsey is Hard-Coding Value into Medicaid Policy [Video]
How to turn analytics into actual policy outcomes.
Regulators get it right in Optum-Change case, a proper target for antitrust enforcement
In both word and action, the Biden administration has ushered in an aggressive new era of antitrust enforcement. Less than a year in, administration leaders have rescinded previous antitrust guidelines, sometimes without explicit replacement, and stopped pending mergers dead in their tracks. It is difficult to cast judgment on so broad a policy shift, but […]
Telehealth, online pharmacy key focus for UnitedHealth, leaders say
UnitedHealth's 2020 revenue jumped by $15 billion from the year before. As the payer gears up for 2021, leaders except to see demand for telehealth and online pharmacies continue, driving their focus on these services.
UnitedHealth Group quitting California insurance exchange
UnitedHealth just joined the California exchange this year, and it only had about 1,200 enrollees so the immediate impact on overall coverage numbers is minimal.
MD Anderson, UnitedHealth devise bundled payments pilot for cancer care
A pilot program by University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and health insurance giant UnitedHealthcare is underway that will seek a new payment model for head and neck cancers, marking one of the first bundled payment initiatives specifically focused on cancer. The shift away from the fee-for-service model has largely been applied to primary […]
Optum Labs adds yet more partners for big data sharing
Optum Labs, co-founded by the Mayo Clinic and Optum, announced four additional partners to its big data sharing effort in an attempt to find improvements in healthcare: Harvard Medical School Department of Health Care Policy, Medica Research Institute, University of Maryland, Baltimore and Merck. Optum Labs, which is a division of UnitedHealthGroup’s Optum, is currently […]