March 27, 2019 08:28 AM UPDATED 8 HOURS AGO Modern Healthcare Centene Corp. on Wednesday said it will buy fellow Medicaid insurer WellCare Health Plans in an estimated $17.3 billion deal. All in all, the two insurers would cover nearly 22 million people in Medicare, Medicaid and the ACA exchanges. Centene CEO Michael Neidorff will serve […]
Month: March 2019
Lawmakers, officials seek to ramp up scrutiny over electronic health records
SHELBY LIVINGSTON March 22, 2019 04:24 PM Lawmakers and government officials are seeking to ramp up scrutiny over electronic health records. A week after whistleblower allegations against Community Health Systems’ related to its electronic health record implementation were revealed, Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) asked the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology for information on the ONC’s processes […]
OCR Issues Notice of Resolution to the State of Hawaii After Hawaii Takes Action in Safeguarding Conscience Protections for Pregnancy Care Centers
The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today that it issued a Notice of Resolution to the State of Hawaii after Hawaii took corrective action in response to OCR’s investigation of complaints of discrimination by the state against non-profit pregnancy resource centers. Complainants, Aloha Pregnancy […]
Whistleblowers allege CHS made false claims about EHR technology
March 14, 2019 04:51 PM UPDATED 4 HOURS AGO SHELBY LIVINGSTON A whistleblower accused Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems of submitting hundreds of millions of dollars in false claims to HHS for federal incentive payments for meaningfully using electronic health records. The lawsuit, unsealed by a federal court in Miami on Thursday, claimed that CHS made […]
Amazon-Berkshire Hathaway-JPMorgan name joint venture Haven
Modern Healthcare, March 06, 2019 05:23 PM Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase’s year-old and highly touted joint venture will be called Haven. The venture’s newly launched website reveals few details about the widely anticipated, not-for-profit entity. The three parent companies said in January that they would leverage their combined scale and expertise to develop technology solutions to […]