NEW YORK CITY—UnitedHealth’s Optum is working to leverage its already massive care services and technology infrastructure to create a "seamless" healthcare experience for consumers at the local level. The company is rolling that work out "city by city," UnitedHealth Group president Andrew Witty said Wednesday during the Forbes Healthcare Summit.
If lawmakers come together on a bipartisan federal privacy law it could result in new rules over health data currently not covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) law.
A Tennessee doctor faces up to 20 years in prison and up to a $1 million fine after he pleaded guilty to a single count of unlawful distribution of drugs, including opioids.
Top insurance industry groups are imploring the Trump administration to delay a comment period on a proposed rule that would force payers to provide real-time out-of-pocket cost estimates.
Two top Democrats are putting pressure on the Trump administration and big-name health insurers to address concerns about racial bias in algorithms used to assess patients’ healthcare needs.
Major hospital groups and several individual facilities have filed a lawsuit charging the Trump administration’s price transparency rule is “unlawful, several times over.”
Health IT pioneer John Halamka, M.D. is leaving Massachusetts after 23 years to lead Mayo Clinic's digital health services and data strategy. Halamka is leaving Beth Israel Lahey Health, where he served as executive director of the Health Technology Exploration Center, to become president of Mayo Clinic Platform.
Consumer wearables company Garmin is expanding into sleep health in partnership with Israeli app developer Sleeprate. The two companies developed a mobile self-help sleep assessment and improvement program that aims to help consumers sleep better, track their recovery, and optimize workouts.
Hospitals are blasting the Trump administration’s move to survey them about drugs covered under the 340B discount program, saying the survey request will cost too much and is flawed.
Patients in rural areas experience higher preventable hospitalization and mortality rates than those in urban areas. A new study suggests lack of access to specialists could be the main culprit.
Health IT company Cerner is deepening its partnership with Amazon Web Services with the goal of building new prediction tools and a virtual medical scribe for healthcare providers. At the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week, Cerner expanded that partnership by naming AWS its preferred cloud, artificial intelligence, and machine learning provider.
The Medicare program has a rare opportunity to cut through the complexity of healthcare with a simple solution: Widespread implementation of ADT alerts.
HCA Healthcare is facing a class-action lawsuit that alleges it charged exorbitant, undisclosed “surcharge” fees to patients who visited the emergency department at several of its Florida hospitals.
The Trump administration is launching a program to provide free Truvada, a drug that prevents against HIV often referred to as PrEP, to people who are uninsured. Those doses of PrEP will be made available immediately but later will be distributed by CVS, Walgreens and Rite Aid.
UnitedHealth Group projected that it generated $242 billion in 2019 and is projecting a 7% to 8% increase in earnings in 2020 thanks to strong growth from its PBM division Optum.
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