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Feb 25, 2023

Amazon closes $3.9B One Medical deal as it builds out healthcare strategy


Urban: Majority surveyed not aware of looming Medicaid eligibility redeterminations


Optum study: Accountable Medicare Advantage models produce better outcomes, greater efficiency - Robert King

 

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Amazon closes $3.9B One Medical deal as it builds out healthcare strategy

Amazon has closed its multibillion-dollar deal to buy One Medical to further its ambitions to offer medical services and expand its growing healthcare business to employers.
 

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Urban: Majority surveyed not aware of looming Medicaid eligibility redeterminations

A new survey conducted by the Urban Institute found more than 60% of Medicaid beneficiaries aren't aware of a looming redetermination of eligibility set to kick off on April 1.

Optum study: Accountable Medicare Advantage models produce better outcomes, greater efficiency

Value-based models in Medicare Advantage achieve better patient outcomes and more efficient care compared to traditional Medicare, according to a recent study from Optum.

UnitedHealth, LHC Group close $5.4B merger deal

Home health provider LHC issued a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday to mark the deal's closure.

CMS data: Medicare Advantage enrollment now more than 31M

Enrollment in Medicare Advantage is nearing 31.2 million following the annual enrollment period, about half of the total Medicare population, according to recent data from the Biden administration.

Court temporarily bars former Cigna exec Amy Bricker from taking role at CVS

Cigna filed suit against former Express Scripts President Amy Bricker and CVS in late January after Bricker left the company to take an executive role at CVS.

Humana to shed employer group commercial business

Humana is exiting the employer group commercial market after a strategic review of its business lines, the insurer announced Thursday.

Do clinicians really need to diagnose long COVID? We asked the experts

No generally agreed upon best practice guidelines for the treatment and diagnosis of long COVID exist. There do exist, however, guidelines for most of the symptoms that patients who may be suffering from long COVID present with. Can’t providers just take them on one at a time?

Senators urge CMS to rethink narrow Medicare coverage for Alzheimer's drugs

A letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure is signed by 18 Republican and two Democratic senators.

CMS: Tighter price transparency enforcement, standardized requirements for hospitals are on the horizon

A recent write-up from two CMS heads outlined the agency's recent surveillance of federal price transparency requirements for hospitals, as well as some of the next steps regulators will take to enforce its rules.
 
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'Podnosis': What private equity means for rural healthcare, and how Margaret-Mary Wilson's career journey impacts patient care

In this week's episode of "Podnosis," we talk about a new report by the Private Equity Stakeholder Project on private equity in rural settings. We also talk with Margaret-Mary Wilson, M.D., about how her lived experience has influenced her career journey.
 

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