CMS will award up to $100 million to fund as many as 30 pilot programs through its voluntary initiative focused on lifestyle medicine. Six things to know: 1. The agency plans to award up to 30 three-year cooperative agreements totaling…
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Stryker said several surgical technology platforms remain unaffected as the company continues responding to a cyberattack that disrupted its Microsoft-based internal environment beginning March 11. Here are 12 updates about the cyberattack:
About 82% of the more than 16,000 available public comments on the 2027 Medicare Advantage proposed rate notice share the perspective and language of a letter from the Medicare Advantage Majority, a group with undisclosed funding sources and founders, according…
Rob Anderson, CEO of Lakewood Ranch (Fla.) Medical Center, has shared plans to resign March 26. COO Philip Reber has been appointed interim CEO and will work with Mr. Anderson to ensure a smooth transition, a hospital spokesperson said in…
In this episode, William Scott Hurst, MBA, FACHE, CEO and President of PPNHCo Patient Physician Network Holding Co., L.L.C., shares how his 600 provider IPA is confronting payer disparities, scaling operations, and launching a multiple employer welfare arrangement to lower…
Morgantown, W.Va.-based WVU Medicine plans to build a $50 million small-format hospital in St. Clairsville, Ohio, The Times Leader reported March 13. Douglass Harrison, regional president at WVU Medicine and president and CEO of WVU Medicine Wheeling (W.Va.) Hospital, shared…
A federal magistrate judge in Minnesota has ordered UnitedHealth Group to produce a wide range of documents in an ongoing lawsuit accusing the insurer of using an AI algorithm to wrongfully deny Medicare Advantage members post-acute care. The March 9…
CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, is not only encouraging AI use across his agency but also with Medicare beneficiaries, he said in a recent interview with HIMSS President and CEO Hal Wolf. “Why wouldn’t we, within a year, be able to give…
A former medical case management coordinator at Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Health pleaded guilty to tampering with prescription medications. Shelbi Wolken, 35, of Wheat Ridge, Colo., pleaded guilty to one count of tampering with a consumer product, according to a March…
A growing share of Americans worry about affording prescription drugs, with 59% saying they are at least somewhat concerned — the highest level recorded since 2018, according to a March 13 KFF poll. About 22% of respondents said they are…