Author: Scott Welch
On the heels of several high-profile acquisitions, Walgreens aims to be a point of entry for consumers for healthcare services ranging from urgent care to specialty care and even in-home health. Walgreen’s VillageMD unit recently announced it was buying another urgent and primary care chain, Summit Health-CityMD, in a deal worth close to $9 billion. The ...
This spring, Chevron workers testified that the company revoked health coverage for hundreds of members of the United Steelworkers Local 5 at the Richmond, California, refinery during a strike that ultimately lasted two months. Thousands of nurses at Stanford Health Care were told in April they would lose their health insurance if they did not return to work during ...
Millions of Americans have been signing up for health insurance at their companies in recent weeks. But for some full-time workers, particularly in certain industries like construction, job-based coverage isn’t an option for them. This divide was even more evident as the job market roared back to life in 2021 after steep losses early in the Covid-19 pandemic. Though the number ...
For supporters of congressional proposals to improve the U.S. retirement system, it’s about to be a nail-biting few weeks. Lawmakers are heading back to Washington next week to finish out the so-called lame-duck session — the legislative period between the midterm elections and the new Congress, which starts Jan. 3. While no specific agenda has ...
New data from the insurance industry estimate more than 9 million healthcare claims were subject to surprise billing protections, as a legal battle over how to implement such protections continues. Insurer industry groups AHIP and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) released a survey Thursday detailing the impact of the No Surprises Act (PDF)—which banned surprise ...
The merger, which is expected to close in the first quarter of next year, will create one of the biggest independent doctor groups in the US providing primary care, specialty care and urgent care.
A biologic therapy that delays the onset of type 1 diabetes received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday. It is the first therapy approved for prevention of type 1 diabetes. The monoclonal antibody teplizumab, which will be marketed under the brand name Tzield, from ProventionBio and Sanofi is given through intravenous infusion. The ...
Dive Brief: * Providence said it has closed all 27 of its retail clinics in Southern California, citing macroeconomic pressures and lower patient volumes than anticipated. The clinics closed to patient care Thursday. * “The national healthcare labor shortage, inflation, global supply chain disruptions, lower than budgeted volumes, and a highly competitive retail health industry ...
Newly released federal audits reveal widespread overcharges and other errors in payments to Medicare Advantage health plans for seniors, with some plans overbilling the government more than $1,000 per patient a year on average. Summaries of the 90 audits, which examined billings from 2011 through 2013 and are the most recent reviews completed, were obtained ...
Starting January 1, 2023, a new law will require most types of insurance producers, as well as independent insurance adjusters, public insurance adjusters, and analysts, to include their license number on emails.