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J.B. Hunt Transport Services, a Fortune 500 transportation outfit, is giving $5 million to the ongoing Arkansas Children's Northwest construction project, with the hope of bringing expert pediatric care closer to home for more than 200,000 children.
A federal jury has convicted two California doctors of multiple counts of healthcare fraud after participating in a hospice care scheme that robbed Medicare and Medi-Cal of almost $7.5 million dollars, the Department of Justice announced earlier this month.
Kim Keck, senior vice president of Aetna, will become the president and chief executive officer of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island in June, the nonprofit insurer announced Thursday.
Humana is partnering with four orthopedic specialty groups in Tennessee, and an additional two in Ohio, on bundled payments for Humana Medicare Advantage members undergoing total hip or knee joint replacement.
New York-based private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson and Stowe has signed on to provide financing to senior care company Innovage, which will allow them to expand their services and pivot from a nonprofit to a for-profit entity.
Cigna has teamed up with Integrated Independent Physicians Network in Florida for an accountable care organization model that rewards doctors for having a healthier population and saving money.
Jeffrey Carr, most recently the entrepreneur-in-residence at a startup incubator, has joined Mercy Health as the health system's first chief innovation officer, the health system announced Tuesday.
Payers have until June 6 to submit documents for Medicare's Annual Election Period materials including the Annual Notification of Change, Evidence of Coverage and Summary of Benefits documents.
The problems were traced to the compounding pharmacy lab at Paradise Valley Hospital in National City, California, where inspectors found "dust, stains and foreign material" in a supposedly sterile environment in which thousands of intravenous medications were prepared over eight months -- from Jan. 1 to Aug. 18.
The proposal needs federal approval to modify the marketplace set up under the Affordable Care Act, which specifically prohibits such immigrants from joining the exchanges. Lara's bill SB10 would compel California to seek that approval.