The Administration for Community Living has released a final rule that updates regulations for implementing its Older Americans Act (OAA) programs for the first time since 1988, aiming to better support the national aging network that delivers OAA services and improve program implementation.
Walgreens Boots Alliance has appointed former CVS executive Mary Langowski as executive vice president and president, U.S. Healthcare. Langowski replaces current executive vice president and president, U.S. Healthcare, John Driscoll, who will transition to a senior advisory role working closely with CEO Tim Wentworth, Langowski and the U.S. Healthcare business, Walgreens said.
Telehealth utilization increased nationally and in every U.S. census region in November 2023, according to FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker. The widespread increases followed a month of varied changes in October.
The Health Resources and Services Administration is leveraging new legal authority proposed in the President Biden’s Fiscal Year 2024 budget, issuing requests for proposals in advance of executing multiple different contract awards meant to increase competition as part of its Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) Modernization Initiative.
Amazon is reportedly cutting over 100 jobs at One Medical and Amazon Pharmacy, according to a letter to employees from Amazon Healthcare Services executive Neil Lindsay.
Nestled between New Hampshire and upstate New York, Vermont is a quiet, mostly rural state. But it’s the site of a federal test of an alternative payment model in which the most significant payers from throughout the state – Medicare, Medicaid, and commercial healthcare payers – incentivize value and quality, with a focus on health […]
The state has seen some success in overhauling its provider payment structure in a push to advance value-based care. Tom Borys and Abe Berman of the OneCare Vermont ACO discuss.
The final quarter of 2022 saw Centene pull in $45 million in profit while total revenue hit about $39.5 billion, the company revealed in its latest earnings report. That’s an improvement over Q4 2022, in which the organization experienced a $213 million loss and $35.6 billion in revenue.
Seventy years after North Shore University Hospital (NSUH) first opened its doors, the Level I trauma center and quaternary care teaching hospital recently announced the completion of the Petrocelli Surgical Pavilion – a $560 million, 288,000-square-foot tower that’s expected to complement cardiac, neurosurgery and transplant programs.
Cano Health and its affiliated entities have voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.