Proposed Medicare loss is a gain for insurers
When is a loss a gain? It seems the answer is when the loss wasn’t nearly as bad as expected. That’s what major health insurers discovered when the Centers for …
Telemedicine Comes to Georgia College Campus
Illustrating once again that the world of college education is fertile ground for deployment of cutting-edge healthcare technologies and telemedicine, one college campus in Georgia is about to experience the …
3D Printing in Healthcare
No matter how much precision and care the prosthetics experts at Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) put into crafting an accurate prosthetic leg for one healthy, young female patient, …
Justice Department investigating Humana billing practices
Humana Inc. reports that it is cooperating with a Department of Justice inquiry into whether it exaggerated the severity of elderly patients’ illnesses to generate higher Medicare reimbursements. The Louisville, …
UPMC board Chairman Beckwith cheers on CEO Romoff
Almost every day, UPMC President and CEO Jeffrey Romoff exchanges emails with the only person with enough power to fire him. Romoff, arguably one of the region’s most influential and …
OMHA Announces ALJ Appeal Status Website
This week, the Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA) announced the launch of a new website which will allow providers to check the status of their ALJ appeals. The …
Salesforce survey: Millennials want telehealth and mobile apps
Just ahead of the closing enrollment period for Obamacare, tech behemoth Salesforce released a report titled “The State of the Connected Patient 2015,” detailing the potentially huge shift in how …
Telemedicine startup Avizia raises $4M to expand staff, explore acquisitions
Just a couple of months after it acquired Emerge.MD, telemedicine startup Avizia has raised fresh capital for an aggressive expansion plan this year. It raised $4 million, according to a …