CVS Health has acquired Signify Health, besting Amazon, UnitedHealth Group and others in acquiring the home health platform. CVS has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Signify Health for $30.50 per share in cash, representing a total transaction value of approximately $8 billion, CVS announced on Monday. Signify was reportedly for sale by auction, with board members holding a meeting on ...

The Biden administration needs to back off a massive overhaul to risk adjustment audits for Medicare Advantage (MA) plans, according to insurers that say the proposal unfairly targets prior audits dating back a decade. Insurer advocacy groups and providers submitted comments to a request for information on how to improve the MA program. Insurers turned ...

In order to stay in sync with the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations, it’s time to say bye, bye, bye to the original Covid-19 mRNA booster vaccines. Or perhaps bivalent, bivalent, bivalent. Going forward, bivalent versions of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 mRNA boosters are what’s going to be available, replacing ...

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday that the recent decline in monkeypox cases that has been observed in North America and Europe is evidence that the current outbreak can be stopped or eliminated outright. Tedros made note of how monkeypox has quickly grown in prominence from being a little-known virus that was ...

Nevada has the highest percentage of one-star acute-care hospitals of any state, the lowest rating given by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Confirmed cases of once-rare monkeypox rose by one-third over the past week in Clark County, according to data released Wednesday by the Southern Nevada Health District, an increase a district official described as concerning.