Month: February 2023
The fear started when a few patients saw their nurses and dietitians posting job searches on LinkedIn. Word spread to Facebook groups, and patients started calling Coram CVS, a major U.S. supplier of the compounded IV nutrients on which they rely for survival. To their dismay, CVS Health confirmed the rumors on June 1: It ...
CVS Health Corp (CVS.N) is close to an agreement to buy primary care center operator Oak Street Health Inc (OSH.N) for about $10.5 billion including debt, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. The companies are discussing a price of about $39 a share, the newspaper said. The deal, if it goes through, could be ...
Just under 100,000 people signed up for insurance through Nevada’s health insurance exchange during the latest enrollment period, according to the state.
The number of new COVID-19 cases continues to drop in Clark County, with Nevada among a handful of states with all of its counties experiencing low levels of the disease.
States are preparing to remove millions of people from Medicaid as protections put in place early in the covid-19 pandemic expire. The upheaval, which begins in April, will put millions of low-income Americans at risk of losing health coverage, threatening their access to care and potentially exposing them to large medical bills.
Her “most ambitious” bill idea, however, is focused on increasing the number of residencies and fellowships available to newly-graduated doctors and health care providers.
Several insurers say the Biden administration’s proposal to limit nonstandard plan options on the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA's) HealthCare.gov next year will stifle innovation and consumer options.
Speaker Kevin McCarthy left his first White House visit with confidence that he and President Joe Biden could negotiate a spending deal, but the real test may come in negotiations with his own Republican conference. McCarthy, who had to bargain with hardline conservatives to win his speaker bid after 15 rounds of voting, leads a fractious caucus where some ...
Dive Brief: The trend of workers demanding salary transparency shows no signs of slowing down. According to a recent survey from ResumeLab, 80% of respondents said they likely wouldn’t apply for a job if salary range information was lacking, 77% said it should be illegal to not include a salary in job postings and 80% said ...
Dive Brief: The AHIP insurance lobby blasted the Biden administration for finalizing a rule that seeks to claw back millions of dollars from health insurers through Medicare Advantage audits that will apply retroactively to payments beginning in 2018. AHIP called the final rule “unlawful” and “fatally flawed” in a Monday statement following the rule’s release. The lobby ...