by admin | Dec 27, 2017 | Health
“Cyber” came into its own in 2017. As hackers hit healthcare and other industries with ransomware attacks that crippled some companies for weeks, the term has been on the tip of every executive’s tongue. Now, companies are putting their energy and...
by admin | Dec 26, 2017 | Health
Mylan paid $465 million. Shire Pharmaceuticals paid $350 million. Life Care Centers of America paid $145 million. And eClinicalWorks paid $155 million. Those were the biggest healthcare fraud and abuse recoveries reported by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2017. For...
by admin | Dec 26, 2017 | Health
Tianqiao Chen-controlled companies bought another $1.6 million worth of Community Health Systems stock, bringing his effective ownership to 25.9 million shares, or 23% of all outstanding stock. It is unclear what the Chinese investment manager’s intentions are...
by admin | Dec 26, 2017 | Health
Americans in states that President Donald Trump carried in his march to the White House account for more than 4 in 5 of those signed up for coverage under the healthcare law the president still wants to take down. An Associated Press analysis of new figures from the...
by admin | Dec 26, 2017 | Health
Vermont’s Green Mountain Care Board has approved a $620 million budget for OneCare Vermont, the state’s multi-payer accountable care organization. The budget approved Thursday marks the beginning of a five-year experiment to transform health care in the...
by admin | Dec 26, 2017 | Health
Flipping the “magic switch” for enrollment in the Children’s Health Insurance Program won’t come cheap for states. In Virginia, the cost of shutting off enrollment with the option of opening it back up again could cost upwards of $300,000....
