State regulators are monitoring Bright Health Group’s finances after the insurer was required to transfer nearly $150 million at the last minute to remain in compliance with capital requirements for health insurance companies. Bright Health Group’s second-quarter filings in Georgia, Texas, Colorado and Illinois show it transferred funds into its insurance arms in those states just before the filings were due. […]
The concept that all companies are “health care companies” takes on greater import in the wake of the pandemic. The 2023 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey from the Business Group on Health (BGH) found that two in three large employers see their health and well-being strategy as an integral part of their overall workforce strategy. This […]
The increasingly vital role of remote patient monitoring will be the focus of an upcoming webinar, sponsored by Huma, a global digital health company. Huma’s modular remote monitoring platform helps medtech companies to realize new value, from developing patient relationships to providing real world evidence around peri operative procedures. The webinar will highlight three aspects of remote monitoring: Real world […]
One small town in Iowa is trying to figure out where their time capsule is buried, though they’re apparently pretty certain it’s under a layer of concrete. Today in health care, the Food and Drug Administration cleared updated booster shots, but how many people will be motivated to get them? Welcome to Overnight Health Care, where we’re following the latest moves […]
The behavioral health segment of digital health has grabbed a lot of attention, especially since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Last year, digital health startups offering mental healthcare raised $5.1 billion, outstripping all other clinical indications by a whopping $3.3 billion and nearly double 2020’s funding total, according to a Rock Health report analyzing investment trends in 2021. The […]
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced Wednesday that he has filed a lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), claiming the federal agency has unlawfully delayed approval of a state program that would allow the state to import prescription drugs from Canada to lower medication costs for Floridians. DeSantis said the FDA has violated federal law by dragging out […]
The Medicare Shared Savings Program saved Medicare $1.66 billion in 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Tuesday. This is the fifth consecutive year the program has created savings. The Medicare Shared Savings Program works with Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), which are groups of physicians, hospitals and other healthcare providers. These ACOs collaborate to provide high quality care […]
Applying for Medicaid or Children’s Health Insurance Program benefits would become much easier under a proposed rule the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published Wednesday. The draft regulation includes several policies that would ease access to the low-income health programs, such as limiting eligibility checks to once every 12 months, requiring renewal forms to be pre-populated with certain information and establishing […]
Until recently, Children’s National researchers got around their computational limitations either by working with preprocessed data or by breaking large data sets into smaller portions that their systems could digest. But today, Kaplarevic says, they’re taking a different approach, leveraging what he calls the “enormous horsepower and versatility” of the cloud. Children’s National, primarily through its electronic health records system, […]