Health groups must start sharing health information electronically as regulators seek to make it easier for consumers to access their health data. But groups warn they’re not prepared to meet the deadline.
Many made positive changes, but vague and unpublicized eligibility criteria were also common, research published in JAMA Network Open found.
The health plans, selected from a field of five bidders, will receive five-year contracts.
“The result, in the case of Providence, is that thousands of poor patients were saddled with debts that they never should have owed,” The New York Times found.
It’s the latest system to report that pressures from inflation and expenses are outpacing revenue growth.
The private equity-owned physician staffing firm faces a deteriorating operating performance that could deplete its cash by the end of 2023, the rating agency warned.
“We are, once again, asking for the law to be followed as Congress intended, and for the challenged provisions to be invalidated,” TMA’s president said.
The most serious flaws were failing to prove that UnitedHealth is likely to misuse Change Healthcare’s data to advantage the company, Judge Carl Nichols wrote.
Two-thirds of physicians working in emergency departments reported being assaulted in the past year alone, according to a survey.
The plan will offer $0 copays and $0 deductibles to employers in the Austin, Texas, area after a baseline health visit is conducted