Author: Scott Welch
Kaiser Permanente and a pair of investment firms have unveiled a joint venture to help older, low-income adults receive care support without needing to be moved from their homes.
Nonprofit hospitals created largely to serve the poor are adding concierge physician practices, charging patients annual membership fees of $2,000 or more for easier access to their doctors.
Amazon Pharmacy expanded its same-day medication delivery service to New York City and Los Angeles, with plans to add a dozen more U.S. cities by the end of the year, the company announced Tuesday. Amazon’s pharmacy business plans to use environmentally friendly delivery vehicles, including e-bikes and electronic vans, with a strategy to pick the ...
Costco and its low-cost health care partner are expanding into weight-loss management. Costco will begin offering its members in the U.S. access to a weight loss program through Sesame, a health care marketplace, Sesame exclusively told USA TODAY. The service, which will cost $179 every three months, is scheduled to become available April 2. “We are witnessing ...
This year US health insurers have to navigate strong crosscurrents from demographic shifts, regulatory changes, and member preferences. How they react now can have an impact for years to come.
Paid search is a powerful marketing channel for a wide variety of industries. For those unfamiliar with the concept, let’s answer a relatively common question folks new to digital marketing principles may have. What is Paid Search? Paid search (or Search Engine Marketing) is the process of placing ads in search engines based on a ...
The Biden administration on Monday followed through on its proposal to cut next year’s base payments to Medicare Advantage plans an average of 0.16%, despite pressure from insurers and their allies in Congress. Why it matters: While the plans will wind up seeing a net increase once payments are risk-adjusted to account for the health of their customers, ...
Some Medicare prescription plans will start paying for weight-loss medications for people with heart disease.
As expected, insurance-friendly groups are upset over the feds’ MA benchmark payment decision Monday. Global strategy firm Capstone said the CMS decision most negatively impacts Humana, UnitedHealth Group, Elevance Health, Cigna and certain providers like Agilon that were expecting high utilization rates last quarter to be represented in the growth rate, which decreased compared to ...
Growing up in the Netherlands, Henriette van Praag had always been active, playing sports and riding her bike to school every day. Then, in the late-1990s, while working as a staff scientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, she discovered that exercise can spur the growth of new brain cells in mature mice. ...