Plus, UnitedHealth posts loss amid cyberattack fallout

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Apr 20, 2024

UnitedHealth, CVS, Molina the big losers in Florida Medicaid contract awards


Epic, Particle Health dispute exposes broader challenges with sharing patient data, health IT experts say


UnitedHealth Group posts $1.4B loss in Q1 amid Change cyberattack fallout


Providers pitch their post-Change cybersecurity policy fixes to sympathetic Congress


Elevance Health taps PE firm CD&R for primary care partnership - Paige Minemyer

 

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UnitedHealth, CVS, Molina the big losers in Florida Medicaid contract awards

Just three insurers earned statewide contracts for Florida's state-run managed care program, but UnitedHealth, Aetna and Molina were not selected.
 

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Epic, Particle Health dispute exposes broader challenges with sharing patient data, health IT experts say

Health IT experts say the rift between the two companies exposes larger problems with health data exchange including a lack of transparency on who is accessing data and how it's being used along with the need for better gatekeeping.

UnitedHealth Group posts $1.4B loss in Q1 amid Change cyberattack fallout

UnitedHealth Group released its first-quarter earnings Tuesday morning as the industry continues to reel from the massive cyberattack on its Change Healthcare unit.

Providers pitch their post-Change cybersecurity policy fixes to sympathetic Congress

With UnitedHealth Group out of the room, lawmakers were happy to entertain providers' calls for greater third-party cybersecurity liability and antitrust during a recent subcommittee hearing.

Elevance Health taps PE firm CD&R for primary care partnership

Elevance Health is teaming up with private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in its latest bid to expand access to advanced primary care.

A look at the first year of Blue Shield of California's Virtual Blue plan

A year ago, Blue Shield of California joined forces with Accolade and TeleMed2U to launch Virtual Blue, a new plan that centers on virtual care for members with the goal of boosting access. And with that first year on the books, the insurer is seeing positive results in Virtual Blue, it revealed Friday.

Head physician's 'inappropriate' alterations suspend Memorial Hermann transplant programs

Houston’s Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center's liver and kidney transplant programs have been suspended for several days. The organization said it's reached out to affected patients and is working to "quickly" restart the programs, but as of Monday offered no potential timeline.

Physician pay rose a modest 3% in 2023. Here are the specialties that saw the biggest gains

Any contentment about compensation gains was undercut by the effects of high inflation rates throughout 2023 and Medicare reimbursement cuts, according to Medscape's 2024 physician compensation report.

Bankruptcies among PE-backed healthcare companies spiked in 2023, report finds

Private equity-backed companies represented more than 20% of last year's healthcare bankruptcies, handily outpacing those of the past five years. Further, nearly all of the companies with high credit risk going into 2024 were owned by private equity firms.

Ransomware gang reportedly leaks data stolen in Change cyberattack

A post from RansomHub claims to have four terabytes of data stolen from Change, according to analyst Dominic Alvieri.
 
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