Consumer Driven Health Care

The weeks-long outage at Change Healthcare, which was hit with a cyberattack, could negatively impact the credit of smaller providers and pharmacies that depend on it for financial services, warns the credit rating agency.

The HHS rule, which mandates that health insurers not count copay assistance toward out-of-pocket costs, was struck down last fall, however, it is backfiring on patients with chronic diseases that need expensive drugs.

For patients using tools in the remote patient monitoring category, annual spending is projected to increase by $2,002 for commercial insurance patients.

The suit alleges Aledade cheated Medicare out of millions using billing software "rigged" to make patients appear sicker than they were, such as coding anxiety as depression, boosting payments by $3,300 a year per patient.

Although employers choose the plans in order to negotiate lower health care prices, they generally lack market power to do so effectively, so they need to critically assess whether it will help their bottom line, says a new study.

Following the Change Healthcare cyberattack, UnitedHealth Group has announced that it has advanced payments to address bottlenecks in the payments system and it will start releasing new medical claims software this week.