This isn’t some cheap dose of “Little House on the Prairie” nostalgia, but rather a shot of truth: We are a long way from small-town doctors treating patients for decades and lifetimes — after treating their parents, and perhaps even grandparents as well. Not only...
Seattle-based 98point6 has officially launched nationwide availability of its on-demand primary care platform. The company announced that the service, which delivers personalized consultation, diagnosis and treatment to patients across the country, is available to anyone 18 years and older, regardless of whether they have health insurance....
Innovation is good, but flexibility and agility count, too — as does striking while it’s hot. Those are among the factors that drove the recent acquisition of Discovery Benefits, Inc. (DBI), an employee benefits administrator, by financial technology services company WEX. In this week’s Monday Conversation from...
New data found that more than 306.7 million automated clearing house (ACH) electronic funds transfer (EFT) payments were made from health plans to healthcare providers last year. The new figures from NACHA — The Electronic Payments Association have shown an increase of 11.5 percent from 2017. That is more than double...
Healthcare done digitally is attracting the attention and the dollars of tech giants, linking them with brick-and-mortar players in a push to meld tech and retail. In the latest evidence of strategic alliances – notably targeting Amazon’s movement into healthcare – Microsoft said Tuesday morning (Jan....
CVS Health, the drugstore chain operator, announced Tuesday (Jan. 15) that Walmart has chosen to leave the CVS Caremark pharmacy benefit management (PBM) commercial and Managed Medicaid retail pharmacy networks. In a press release announcing the development, CVS said it has requested that Walmart continue...
In medicine, it seems there is a side effect for every treatment. The Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare, which was signed into law in 2010, is no exception. The purpose of the ACA was to make healthcare more accessible to more people by, among...
Information is power, right? Sure. Except when it’s a source of confusion. That’s the emerging — if very early — story so far with the new requirement that kicked in Jan. 1 that hospitals post their prices online. The sharing of that information comes amid the...
Health care is changing, and patients are footing an ever larger portion of the bill. That makes for an onerous debt burden at times - and providers are scrambling to collect on the bills. John Talaga, CEO of Flywire's OnPlan, discusses how tech can be...
