Walgreens exploring sale of Shields Health Solutions: Bloomberg
The specialty pharmacy could be valued at more than $4 billion in a sale, but a deal might slow the healthcare segment’s drive toward profitability.
The specialty pharmacy could be valued at more than $4 billion in a sale, but a deal might slow the healthcare segment’s drive toward profitability.
The payer curbed the worst of medical cost growth last year, and expects to do the same in 2024 — an assumption one analyst called “aggressive” given persistent higher utilization among seniors.
The purchase by Surgery Ventures comes after HCA has made other acquisitions in Texas, one of the hospital operator’s largest markets.
Lawmakers demanded the operator detail how it will “ensure the communities Steward’s hospitals serve are not abandoned” amid financial troubles.
The lawsuit seeks to represent thousands of other UPMC employees who may have been affected by the nonprofit’s alleged wage suppression and other anticompetitive practices.
Hospital Sisters Health System is shuttering operations in Western Wisconsin as nonprofits struggle to rebound from pandemic-related challenges.
The suit alleges the health system and a vendor failed to implement standards or promptly alert people whose data may have been exposed during a cyberattack.
The Idaho-based health group has until March 29 to find a buyer for its 11 locations, otherwise the facilities will shutter.
The proposed settlement comes shortly after regulators settled allegations that another company had sold location data that could be used to track visits to medical clinics.
Michael Carson, a veteran of the insurance and value-based care industry, has been tapped to lead Centene’s Medicare business.