October 26, 2021
Associated Press
A panel of U.S. health advisers on Tuesday endorsed kid-size doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, moving the U.S. closer to beginning vaccinations in children ages 5 to 11.
Month: October 2021
UnitedHealth to repay providers shortchanged for COVID vaccine administration
October 21, 2021
NONA TEPPER
UnitedHealth Group has committed to reprocessing all of its commercial claims related to COVID-19 vaccine administration, after federal investigators confirmed the nation’s largest insurer paid “millions” of provider bills 40% less than the Medicare rate for inoculating patients.
The ‘Medicare Advantage-in-a-box’ startup that runs on Amazon’s cloud
October 18, 2021
NONA TEPPER
Medicare Advantage is now so big that startups are forming to sell software and services to other startups as a go-to-market strategy.
BCBS sues COVID testing lab again
October 15, 2021
NONA TEPPER
Another Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurer sued GS Labs over its COVID-19 tests on Thursday, alleging the national testing facility forced commercially insured customers to take unnecessary, expensive tests to fleece Premera Blue Cross out of $26 million.