[ad_1] Cigna completed a $5.36 billion sale of its life, accident and supplemental benefits businesses in six countries to Chubb, the insurance company announced Friday. Cigna agreed to […]
CMS taking steps toward nursing home minimum staffing requirement
[ad_1] The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ announcement Wednesday that it plans to start using payroll data to ensure nursing homes comply with staffing requirements is a […]
Aetna drops prior authorization for most cataract surgeries
[ad_1] Aetna will no longer require prior authorization for most patients seeking cataract surgery. The insurer reversed the year-old policy for its 24.5 million members except Medicare Advantage […]
CMS proposes CoP for new rural emergency hospital model
[ad_1] Hospitals that participate in the new Rural Emergency Hospital model will have to meet criteria of participation similar to those for critical-access hospitals, the Centers for Medicare […]
Abortion ruling prompts variety of reactions from states
[ad_1] ___Missouri Political control: Both GOP Gov. Mike Parson and the Republican-led Legislature support laws against abortion. Background: Missouri law previously allowed abortions up until 22 weeks of […]
How much health insurers pay for almost everything is about to go public
[ad_1] Consumers, employers, and just about everyone else interested in healthcare prices will soon get an unprecedented look at what insurers pay for care, perhaps helping answer a […]
Encompass Health spins off Enhabit Home Health and Hospice
[ad_1] Encompass Health has completed a spin-off of Enhabit, its home health and hospice business, the companies announced Friday. Encompass Health’s board of directors characterized the separation as […]
An organ for every eligible transplant recipient may be within our grasp
[ad_1] Unprecedented things are happening in the field of organ donation and transplantation, heralding a foreseeable future in which every person eligible for a transplant receives one. In […]
Some medical debt is being removed from U.S. credit reports
[ad_1] Help is coming for many people with medical debt on their credit reports. Starting Friday, the three major U.S. credit reporting companies will stop counting paid medical […]
In vitro fertilization providers ask if anti-abortion laws will apply to them
[ad_1] She said that right now, families freeze them, donate them, offer them up for use in research or quality control, or they have them discarded. “But as […]