The Justice Department has sued Cigna for allegedly collecting tens of millions of dollars in excess Medicare payments by exaggerating its members’ illnesses. The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York sued Cigna on Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee and alleges Cigna violated the False Claims Act by reporting its Medicare […]
Panelists at the LeadingAge Annual Meeting + EXPO discuss how senior care leaders can create successful digital transformation at their organizations. From left: Majd Alwan, Executive Director for the LeadingAge Center for Aging Services Technologies; Dusanka Delovska-Trajkova, CIO of Ingleside; Jim Michels, Vice President of Development and Strategic Operations at the Army Distaff Foundation and Knollwood; and Peter Kress, Senior […]
TruBlue Total House Care recently welcomed Carrie Coumbs as the company’s new senior strategic advisor. Cincinnati, Ohio-based TruBlue is a senior-focused home repair company that operates under a franchising business model. TruBlue specializes in house care, home maintenance and safety modifications. Coumbs is a senior care veteran with 20 years of aging services experience under her belt — serving as […]
NGM Biosciences’ experimental geographic atrophy therapy failed a mid-stage test, making it less likely that drug partner Merck will exercise its option on the antibody. Meanwhile, an Apellis Pharmaceuticals drug for the same disorder is expected to receive an FDA decision by late November. After NGM Biopharmaceuticals’ most advanced internal program flunked a mid-stage study last year, the biotech said […]
House Democrats on Monday introduced a resolution to reaffirm the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) authority to preempt state law and ensure patients continue to have access to reproductive health care products. The resolution from Reps. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) and Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.) reaffirms the FDA’s authority to prevent states from enacting regulations that limit or prohibit patients from accessing […]
Eyenuk, a Los Angeles company that makes technology for eye screenings, raised $26 million on Monday in a Series A funding round. The round, led by AXA IM Alts, brings Eyenuk’s total funding to more than $43 million. The company was founded in 2010 with a “mission to screen every eye in the world” by leveraging its AI-powered disease detection technologies, […]
Rising COVID-19 cases in Europe are setting off warnings that the U.S. could experience a new surge this winter. Previous jumps in the U.S. have followed a pattern in which cases first rise in Europe, making officials nervous they could see a spike in U.S. cases as the weather turns. The most recent data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and […]
It is a truth universally acknowledged among health experts that official COVID-19 data are a mess right now. Since the Omicron surge last winter, case counts from public-health agencies have become less reliable. PCR tests have become harder to access and at-home tests are typically not counted. Official case numbers now represent “the tip of the iceberg” of actual infections, […]
With over-the-counter hearing aids hitting the market Monday, a new partnership is helping guide consumers to the right products. The August decision by the Food and Drug Administration to allow over-the-counter hearing aids for those 18 years and older was applauded by audiologists as a way to expand access to hearing care. But many professionals still recommend getting evaluated by […]