It’s the latest provider to be hit with a hefty settlement. Earlier this year, Novant Health and Cerebral paid $6.6 million and more than $7 million, respectively, to settle similar claims.
The insurer’s Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield subsidiary is pulling the controversial policy, citing “significant widespread misinformation.”
Brian Thompson’s death on Wednesday set off a flood of darkly celebratory social media posts offset by solemn remembrances from his peers and other healthcare leaders.
The deployment is one of Abridge’s largest health system partnerships, said CEO Shiv Rao. The product will be available to 4,000 employed physicians and advanced practice providers.
By using pre-determined change control plans, manufacturers can update AI-enabled devices without filing an additional FDA submission.
It’s the second of at least five planned buys for Kaiser Permanente-backed Risant Health.
Independent pharmacies were more likely to shut down, possibly because they’re more often excluded from pharmacy benefit managers’ networks, according to the research published in Health Affairs.
The NYPD confirmed the shooting, which cut UnitedHealth’s investor conference short on Wednesday morning, though not Thompson’s identity. Thompson, 50, had been with UnitedHealth since 2004.
After both insurers challenged the agency in court, the CMS improved scores for 12 UnitedHealth contracts and seven Centene contracts.
More than half of survey respondents reported using an AI algorithm for at least one imaging use case, compared with just 17% in 2018.