Alan Goforth is a freelance writer in suburban Kansas City. In addition to freelancing for several publications, he has written a dozen books about sports and other topics.
Optum, which already has more than 90,000 employed or affiliated physicians, has agreed to purchase Steward Health Care's struggling physician group, which includes primary care in addition to a physician contracting network.
Highlighting the impact of the cyberattack on Change Healthcare, the feds are offering a bounty on information leading to the identification of anyone who holds a key leadership position in the "Blackcat" ransomware group.
Many hospitals are adding billions of dollars in fees for routine care in outpatient centers they own, raising patient costs for colonoscopies, mammograms and heart screenings, a new investigation found.
Testifying before the Senate, SSA Commissioner Martin O'Malley said the agency is changing its policy of recouping past overpayments, after it took an aggressive stance last year by clawing back $4.7 billion from beneficiaries.
The $35 insulin cap reduces out-of-pocket costs for those with health savings accounts but new policies are needed to improve access to affordable insulin among commercially insured patients, says a new study.
So far, 500 employers who improperly received the tax credits to retain workers during the pandemic have returned more than $225 million to the IRS as part of a voluntary disclosure program that ended on March 22.
Benefytt Technologies, operating under various names such as Health Insurance Innovations, used aggressive marketing in a scheme to lure consumers in search of Obamacare health plans, says the Federal Trade Commission.
The city of Baltimore, which paid more than $11 million in 2023 for diabetes medications through its self-funded plan, is suing the drug manufacturers, for allegedly conspiring to artificially hike the price of insulin.
The weeks-long outage at Change Healthcare, which was hit with a cyberattack, could negatively impact the credit of smaller providers and pharmacies that depend on it for financial services, warns the credit rating agency.