Jeff Lagasse
Humana will also tap Microsoft for healthcare-tuned natural language understanding and speech recognition to improve workflows.
The four companies settled with the two Ohio counties that had brought the lawsuit, avoiding what was expected to be a bellwether trial.
Teaching hospitals posted superior outcomes, including higher 30-day mortality rates, for patients who underwent general or vascular surgery.
Few adults have the knowledge and ability to obtain health insurance information that can impact their ability to best use their benefits.
Despite this cost increase, 95% of employers are very confident their organization will continue to sponsor healthcare benefits to active employees.
Physicians may be overconfident in their ability to recognize prescription drug misuse, with many trusting patients to take meds as prescribed.
PAP adherence also was associated with a significantly lower number of emergency department visits and inpatient stays.
Sutter said no antitrust violations occurred, citing market competition in the area it served, but the California AG disagreed.
The FDA is also approving greater numbers of complex generic drugs, which are more difficult to replicate and traditionally lack competition.
On average, physician-led ACOs produced almost 7 times the amount of Medicare savings per beneficiary than hospital-led ACOs.