Top healthcare trends in 2024
Jan 18, 2024 · Hospitals, inching toward sustained profitability, will divest from under-performing and costly service lines in 2024 while increasing investments in ambulatory care services.Providers will also ...
Humana’s Medicare Advantage dilemma worsens amid precipitous …
Oct 3, 2024 · Potential mitigation. Humana is reeling from a one-two punch: the preliminary star ratings paired with existing cost challenges in MA. Only 1.6 million of Humana’s more than 6 million MA members ...
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Physicians, hospitals decry 2025 Medicare payment rates
Nov 4, 2024 · Physicians will see their Medicare reimbursement fall 2.9% next year if Congress doesn’t stop the cuts. Meanwhile, reimbursement for hospital outpatient departments is rising 2.9%.
Top healthcare conferences to plan for in 2025
Oct 1, 2024 · National Association of ACOs (NAACOs) April 22-24; Oct. 8-10 Hilton Baltimore Inner Habor; Marriott Marquis, Washington, D.C.. The event, tailored for leaders at Accountable Care Organizations ...
Cardinal Health inks 2 acquisitions worth $3.9B
Nov 14, 2024 · The drug distributor will buy a majority stake in gastroenterology practice management group GI Alliance and purchase Advanced Diabetes Supply Group in deals that should close in early 2025.
Medicare Advantage star ratings fall again in 2025
Oct 11, 2024 · Dive Brief: About 40% of Medicare Advantage plans with prescription drug coverage will earn four or more stars in 2025, a decline from this year, according to data released Thursday by the CMS ...
Cigna scaling back Medicare Advantage footprint in 8 states next …
Sep 20, 2024 · Dive Brief: Cigna is the latest health insurer to roll back its Medicare Advantage offerings next year, as the privately run Medicare plans look for ways to preserve profits amid higher costs from ...
Humana expects to lose ‘few hundred thousand’ Medicare …
Jul 31, 2024 · Dive Brief: Medicare Advantage giant Humana expects to lose a “few hundred thousand” members in its marquee business next year, after seriously shrinking its benefits and exiting markets for ...
Humana plots CenterWell expansion in 2024 | Healthcare Dive
Jan 31, 2024 · Humana plots CenterWell expansion in 2024 The payer is leveraging CenterWell’s growing network of primary care centers for seniors to boost margins in its hard-pressed Medicare Advantage business.