Personalizing Senior Care Through Engagement Platforms Presbyterian Homes of Georgia turned to Wellzesta’s engagement platform for senior care as it opened a new community in Athens, Ga., during the pandemic. The platform allowed residents to connect with the organization and other residents, even prior to the community’s opening in February 2021. “The big lesson learned is that we should have […]
The Minneapolis-based health system Allina Health is launching a new company named Inbound Health. The startup will enable health systems and health plans to establish hospital-at-home and skilled nursing-at-home programs around the country. Inbound Health has been around since May 2020 under the Allina Health umbrella in the Minneapolis area. Now, thanks to financial support from Flare Capital Partners, Inbound […]
With the pinch of a needle, cosmetic dermatologists such as Michele Green can make forehead wrinkles disappear and deep-furrowed crow’s-feet puff back out like yeasted dough. Botox is totally magic, a little unsettling, and very in demand: Green’s New York City practice has been swamped as Americans seek to give themselves a “post-pandemic” glow-up. But these days, many of her […]
One in four people struggle to afford their medications, and eight in 10 people say the cost of prescriptions is unreasonable. Do we really understand why? The answer: pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs. If you’re not in healthcare, you’ve likely never heard of these conglomerates, even though some are in the Fortune 10. They impact consumers by controlling and driving up drug […]
The Oklahoma City-based home health provider Carter Healthcare will pay $22.9 million in order to resolve allegations that it paid physicians to induce referrals of patients that led to false claims to the Medicare and TRICARE programs. “The taxpayer dollars that fund Medicare and Medicaid are meant to support the delivery of health care services most suitable for beneficiaries,” Mike […]
A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that Black, Hispanic and Native American people are more likely to be hospitalized due to the flu and are less likely to get an annual flu shot than White Americans. For the report, flu hospitalization rates from 2009 to 2022 and vaccination rates from 2010 to 2022 were […]
The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from Molina Healthcare that would have ended a False Claims Act lawsuit brought by a former business partner and could have raised the bar for future whistleblower cases. The high court’s decision Tuesday clears the way forward for a whistleblower to pursue his allegations that the Medicaid insurer charged Illinois and […]
7 in 10 Worry About Voter Suppression Interfering with a Fair and Accurate Count Allen Media Group’s African American-focused news, lifestyle, and entertainment platform theGrio and KFF today released a joint national survey examining the mood and views of Black voters, the only in-depth public survey this election cycle focused exclusively on this group, which has historically been a solid […]
A federal watchdog found that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) did not meet a number of requirements in maintaining the nation’s Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) of medical countermeasures. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) conducted a review of the SNS’s operating procedures, requirements, inventory and obligatory data. The agency’s report was first issued in August, but was made […]