Dear Health Care Leaders,
As you know, last month Change Healthcare was the target of a cyberattack that had a significant impact on much of the nation’s health care system. The effects of this attack are far-reaching; Change Healthcare, owned by UnitedHealth Group (UHG), processes 15 billion health care transactions annually and is involved in one in every three patient records. The attack has impacted payments to hospitals, physicians, pharmacists, and other health care providers across the country. Many of these providers are concerned about their ability to offer care in the absence of timely, but providers persist despite the…
March 6, 2024 – The potential financial collapse of Steward Health Care, which owns nine hospitals in Massachusetts, is a crisis—but it could also provide an opportunity, according to health policy expert John McDonough, to make the state’s overall health care system “ stronger, better, more patient-centered and community-centered.”
Steward’s financial problems have led to a lack of adequate staffing and supplies in some of its facilities in recent months, in some cases endangering patients, according to media reports. In addition, there are fears that some of the Steward hospitals will close, leaving communities without crucial health care services and…
Medicaid assisted Randi La Salle avoid difficult decisions.
Should she pay for health care for her and her four children? Or their food or school supplies?
La Salle, who worked three jobs, and her family were among roughly 185,000 Idahoans who over the past year lost health insurance coverage on Medicaid, which largely insures people who are low-income or have disabilities.
Starting April 2023, states were allowed to start removing people from Medicaid, after a three-year federal pause on removals — due to the COVID-19 pandemic — ended.
Idaho pursued a fast timeline for resuming Medicaid eligibility reviews, known as…
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — More than 2,000 West Virginia veterans enrolled in VA health care over the past 365 days.
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced on Friday that 2,051 veterans are now enrolled in VA health care, a 23.41% jump compared to the previous year.
Nationally, VA enrolled 401,006 Veterans in VA health care over the past year. That’s the most yearly enrollees at VA in the last five years and a 50% increase over pandemic-level enrollment in 2020.
The 401,006 enrolled is 30% more than the 307,831 that signed up the previous year.
“We want every eligible Veteran to…