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- Published On: August 21st, 2024
NASHVILLE, Tenn. and OWINGS MILLS, Md., Aug. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- OneOncology, the fastest-growing national platform for independent oncology practices, today announced that it has agreed to acquire United Urology Group ("UUG"), one of the nation's leading urology management services organizations supporting approximately 250 physicians and advanced practice providers with more than 1,300 employees. UUG's vision is to lead the transformation of urology through its commitment to accessible, high quality, and value-based care; patient and employee satisfaction; continuous innovation; and community involvement.
- Published On: August 21st, 2024
Amidst ongoing tensions between the 3 biggest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and pharmacy advocacy groups nationwide, the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) launched a new campaign late last week titled “End PBMs NOW.”
- Published On: August 21st, 2024
The much anticipated first set of negotiations on the prices of brand-name prescription drugs for the Medicare Part D program has been completed.
- Published On: August 21st, 2024
Hospitals are in an increasingly vulnerable position as Medicare Advantage enrollment surges and the federal government looks to take a harder line on health plans, S&P Global warns in a new report.
- Published On: August 20th, 2024
UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest healthcare company, is under fire for allegedly encouraging clinicians to overdiagnose peripheral artery disease in their Medicare Advantage patients to inflate profits.
- Published On: August 20th, 2024
Changes to CMS’s Enhanced Oncology Model (EOM) offer community oncology practices more opportunities for compensation and breathing room to try an alternative advanced payment model (APM), despite ongoing requirements to pursue health equity goals, according to experts who appeared on a July 10, 2024, webinar.
- Published On: August 20th, 2024
Humana, a health insurer that contracts with the federal Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plan, has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit by one of its former employees accusing the insurer of overcharging the U.S. government for prescription drugs, the whistleblower's lawyers, Phillips & Cohen, announced on Friday.
- Published On: August 20th, 2024
Private equity firms are sucking the resources out of America’s hospitals and nursing homes, and feeding on doctors to generate profits.
- Published On: August 20th, 2024
The 340B drug discount program is a hugely important policy issue for hospitals and drug companies, but the most of the rest of us have never heard of it or barely understand it.
- Published On: August 20th, 2024
In an era of constrained revenues, health systems have invested in provider-sponsored health plans (PSHPs) as a growth strategy.