COLUMBUS, Ohio A new bipartisan bill in the Ohio House would prevent insurance providers from dropping drug coverage in the middle of a patient’s annual plan. Now, that’s completely legal and causing problems for many people across the state. Weeks after being locked into her health insurance plan, Natalie Hastings was surprised to learn her … Read more
UnitedHealthcare Pacific Northwest offers health insurance plans in Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Hawaii and Montana. The company’s CEO, Gary Daniels, has been with the company for 10 years, serving in a variety of local and national roles. UnitedHealthcare represents more than 990,800 members in Washington and more than 420,000 members in Oregon, and is committed to … Read more
Are you prepared for the future of healthcare? Over the next eight years, the healthcare sector is projected to grow from 17.4% to 20% of the US economy, making the US economy Patti and Allan Herbert School of Business at the University of Miami an indispensable stop for healthcare clinicians, business executives, policymakers and healthcare … Read more
Republican attorneys general across the country and major medical organizations are trying to help persuade a federal appeals court as it considers Florida’s restrictions on transgender treatment . Briefs filed Friday in the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals offer conflicting views on treatments such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy, especially for adolescents with … Read more
Background DOJ has previously addressed voluntary self-disclosure in the context of mergers and acquisitions transactions. In 2008, the DOJ’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Unit published a Notice of Procedural Opinion Regarding Halliburton (Halliburton Release), an energy company, in which the Department said it does not intend to take any enforcement action against Halliburton for its … Read more
On October 4, 2023, Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Lisa Monaco announced the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) new Safe Harbor for Voluntary Disclosure of Information Related to Purchasing mergers and acquisitions (M&A).first Under the new policy, companies that promptly and voluntarily self-disclose criminal misconduct discovered during pre-acquisition due diligence or during the merger of a … Read more
A small ceramic cup, painstakingly reassembled, sits in a glass case five feet above the floor of the Public Hospital Museum in Williamsburg. Historian Kelly Brennans loves this artifact from the excavation of the original Public Hospital for the Insane and Mentally Disordered, as it was called when it opened on October 12, 1773, as … Read more
Depending on how stakeholders play their cards, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated risk adjustment policy could lead to belt tightening or a golden opportunity for providers. provides palliative care in Medicare Advantage. The majority of palliative care provided to US patients is currently reimbursed through risk-based models such as Medicare … Read more
Opportunity sometimes knocks twice. House Democrats missed a historic opportunity when they voted to oust Kevin McCarthy as Speaker — they could have kept him in his seat in exchange for introducing House rules that encouraged the regime bipartisan. As the House descends into chaos, Democrats may have a second chance. Kevin McCarthy says he’s … Read more