Friday Health Plans of Georgia will be placed into receivership due to its reported insolvency and inability to raise additional funds from outside investors, according to the state’s Office of Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire.

Hospital finances broke even in April amid a continuing trend of high expenses, plus the unwinding of the Medicaid continuous coverage requirement of the COVID-19 public health emergency, according to the latest National Hospital Flash Report from Kaufman Hall.

Virtualists can handle the three Rs that take up 50% of a physician’s time: routine, repeatable and rules-based care, says Dr. Lyle Berkowitz, CEO of KeyCare.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will cover the high cost of Alzheimer’s drugs if the Food and Drug Administration grants traditional approval and when a physician and clinical team participates in the collection of evidence about how these drugs work in the real world, also known as a registry.

Virtual reality device data has the ability to bridge gaps in the EHR, says Gita Barry, president of immersive healthcare at Penumbra.  

Despite an industry-wide transition to value-based payment models that incentivize preventive care and proactive communication between health plans and members, commercial health plans are missing the mark when it comes to patient engagement, according to the J.D. Power 2023 U.S. Commercial Member Health Plan Study.

CIOs employ AI and HIPAA and other best practices to vet third-party risk, says Aaron Miri, senior vice president and chief digital and information officer at Baptist Health.

A new hospital benchmarking study sheds light on how prepared hospitals are to combat cybersecurity attacks and highlights potential areas of focus, says Ed Gaudet, CEO and founder of Censinet.  

BJC HealthCare and Saint Luke’s Health System have signed a letter of intent to form an integrated, academic, Missouri-based health system. The integrated health system will expand healthcare access for more than six million residents in Missouri and beyond, according to both organizations.  

Retailers are well-positioned to disrupt healthcare, with a new Definitive Healthcare report showing that retail clinics have seen a 200% increase in utilization over the past five years – higher than primary care, urgent care and hospital emergency rooms.