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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Jane Sarashon

As a constant observer and advisor across the health/care ecosystem, for me the concept of a “health plan” in the U.S. Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. Consulting Noah Webster….and

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One Medical Acquisition: The Path Forward

Bill of Health

billion acquisition of One Medical (NASDAQ: ONEM) by Amazon triggered significant hyperventilating about the transformative and immediate impact of this transaction on the health care industry. Important Disclosure: Flare Capital was a significant investor in Iora Health and had a board seat. By Michael Greeley. Last week’s $3.9

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Cardiology: The New Darling of Private Equity Investment

Healthcare Law Today

According to the Administration for Community Living (ACL), 1 as of 2019, people 65 and older represented 16% of the population of the United States; that is approximately 54 million people. As of 2019 almost 95% of such persons had Medicare coverage and about half of those also had some sort of supplemental health insurance coverage.

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CMS’s Administrative Simplification Rule Aims to Increase Efficiency and Standardization for Health Care Attachments

Healthcare Law Blog

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), on behalf of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), recently issued a proposed rule to adopt standards under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) for “health care attachment” transactions (the “Proposed Rule”).

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CMS Issues Proposed Rule to Standardize Electronic Health Care Attachments Transactions and Electronic Signature under HIPAA

C&M Health Law

This builds on the HIPAA Transactions Rule standards for financial and administrative transactions among health care providers and health plans and aligns with Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) interoperability regulations.

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Health Provider News – August 19, 2022

Hall Render

Amazon to offer behavioral health services through Ginger partnership. CDC, amid criticism for COVID-19 response, plans reorganization as public health threats grow. House approves sweeping climate, tax, health care package. Joint Commission’s New Accreditation Standards Tackle Health Disparities. CALIFORNIA.

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Health Populi

But for those of us working with and innovating solutions for health and health care, #CES2021 was baked with health goodness , in and beyond “digital health” categories. In my consumer-facing health care work, I’ve adopted the mantra that our homes are our health hubs.