Virtual care company Teladoc Health’s Board of Directors has appointed Charles “Chuck” Divita III as its new CEO effective immediately. Davita has also joined the Board as of today. Divita joins Teladoc Health from GuideWell, a health solutions organization that includes Florida Blue, where he served as executive vice president, commercial markets.
Paired with AI, holograms offer a great tool for patient interactions, caregiver training, virtual greeters and other augmented reality, says Cole Wiser, executive creative director and partner at the Virtual Wild, and Srini Iyer, chief technology officer for Leidos’ health and civil sector.
Health insurers are projected to pay about $1.1 billion in Affordable Care Act medical loss ratio rebates this year, finds a new KFF report.
A federal judge for the Northern District of Texas in Fort Worth has ruled against the Department of Justice’s motion to dismiss a case brought by Humana. Judge Reed O’Connor also denied the DOJ’s motion to transfer the court venue to Dallas. This means that Humana’s case over Medicare Advantage audits can move forward. O’Connor […]
FFRDC provides support to federal agencies, particularly HHS, to enhance problem solving, says Oscar Alleyne, MITRE’s managing director of the public health division.
Providers bypass the manual process for medical record requests through ChartSwap’s automated system, says president Nate Kelly.
Cigna has won an appeal against CVS and its former Express Scripts president over a noncompete agreement. On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in St. Louis, Missouri, upheld a lower court decision barring former Cigna executive Amy Bricker from working for CVS.
The Supreme Court has ruled that the federal Indian Health Service is required to reimburse Tribes for overhead costs for contracted health services from third parties, including private insurers, Medicare and Medicaid.
New ONC rules are expected to have advancements around public health certification, electronic prior authorization, patient engagement tools and further refinements around information sharing, says Sean Sullivan, a partner at Alston & Bird.
A federal judge has ruled against the Federal Trade Commission’s efforts to stop Novant Health from buying two Community Health Systems hospitals in North Carolina. In March, the FTC had sued to block Novant’s $320 million purchase of CHS hospitals, Lake Norman Regional Medical Center and Davis Regional Psychiatric Hospital.