UnitedHealth Group and its health services subsidiary Optum are undertaking a new effort to combine health insurance and medical care, according to Forbes contributor Bruce Japsen.
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A ban on flavored vaping products that hurts the businesses that make them outweighs the state of Michigan's interest in keeping those products from adolescents and children, a Michigan judge ruled in temporarily lifting the state's ban.
A California hospital that closed in 2018 is moving forward in the reopening process, according to the Press-Telegram.
Orlando-based AdventHealth has launched two population health initiatives that explore how various factors influence patients' health as well as patients' DNA.
Colorado officials proposed a public option for its state individual health insurance market, The Denver Post reports.
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Cleveland Clinic and health insurance startup Oscar will extend their co-branded health insurance plans to three additional counties in Ohio for 2020, the organizations said Oct. 10.
Humana expanded its partnership with Accolade and committed $20 million to the healthcare technology and benefits firm, the organizations said Oct. 10.
Cook County Health, a safety-net hospital in Chicago, partnered with Medicare Advantage plan MoreCare to offer benefits to eligible residents in Cook County, the health system said Oct. 10.
Roughly 800,000 Pacific Gas & Electric customers in Northern California had their electricity shut off Oct. 9 as part of a planned power outage by the state's largest utility, according to CNN.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas and global primary care provider Sanitas Medical Center debuted their first of 10 advanced primary care centers set to open in the Dallas and Houston regions, the companies said Oct. 4.