Operating margins improve, but hospitals still face high expenses: Kaufman Hall
Most hospitals underperformed in June, which the consultancy attributes to a growing gap between affluent and poor hospitals.
CVS to lay off 5K employees amid cost pressures
The layoffs come as CVS faces significant integration costs from recent M&A activity, including its $10.6 billion buy of Oak Street and $8 billion acquisition of Signify.
Elevance rebrands Amerigroup segment as Wellpoint
The return of the Wellpoint brand for Amerigroup, which covers Medicaid and Medicare members, is the payer’s latest corporate reinvention.
Marginalized patients more likely to be skipped over in emergency departments, study finds
Black, Hispanic or Latino, Spanish-speaking and Medicaid patients are more likely to be jumped over in line, which increases their odds of leaving before receiving treatment.
Digital health funding, deals reach lowest levels in years
Digital health startups across the globe raised $3.4 billion across 348 deals in the second quarter, with mega-rounds making up more than a quarter of all funding.
Hospital, payer lobbies urge CMS to reconsider ‘conflicting’ prior authorization standards
The groups, normally at odds, have found a source of common agreement in proposed rules meant to standardize data exchange processes.
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CMS releases April Medicaid unwinding data, bringing total disenrollments to 3.8M
The highly-anticipated data pegging the nation’s procedural disenrollment rate at 80% is higher than other, more recent estimates.
CMS says data of 612K Medicare beneficiaries affected in MoveIt breach
A data breach earlier this year has affected tens of millions of individuals to date, and also compromised the sensitive personal and medical information of Medicare seniors.
Walgreens hunts for healthcare experience in new CFO
The departure of CFO James Kehoe comes as recent financial results for Walgreens, which is working to transition from a pharmacy chain to a healthcare services company, have underperformed market expectations.