[ad_1] Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: GE HealthCare has formed a 10-year, $500 million strategic partnership with Catholic Health, the company said last week. The agreement positions GE HealthCare to provide more than 1,300 pieces of technology to the integrated health system’s hospitals and ambulatory locations. GE HealthCare will start shipping equipment within months and expects to provide about half of the devices covered by the deal to Catholic Health clinical sites in the next three years. Dive Insight: New York-based Catholic Health has partnered…
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[ad_1] Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Cardinal Health, a drug distributor and healthcare services company, has inked two acquisitions it says will advance the company’s home care business. On Monday, Cardinal said it agreed to acquire multi-specialty supply company Strive Medical, which focuses on urology, and the diabetes health business of AdaptHealth for a combined $360 million in cash. Cardinal said the deal should expand its at-home solutions business, which the company has targeted for growth through organic investment and acquisitions in recent years. The…
[ad_1] Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Novo Nordisk is suing its biggest obesity drug rival, alleging on Tuesday that Eli Lilly is engaging in deceptive advertising by intentionally using outdated studies to compare the higher doses of its medicines to lower doses of Novo’s products. Filed in a New Jersey District Court, the lawsuit follows a cease-and-desist order in which Novo asked Lilly to take down the advertisements. Lilly hasn’t, so the Danish drugmaker is seeking a permanent injunction to get the ads pulled and…
[ad_1] Listen to the article 7 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The HHS on Tuesday deferred more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota, the latest salvo in the Trump administration’s war on fraud in federal programs. Regulators halted roughly $867.5 million in funding for California and $199 million for Minnesota, after reviews found a significant number of payment claims that needed additional documentation, health officials announced in a press briefing Tuesday. The deferrals are set to add more stress onto the states’ already strapped Medicaid budgets. The CMS paused…
[ad_1] Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The CMS is moving to restrict the taxes on providers and managed care companies that states use to fund Medicaid, proposing a rule to codify policies in the GOP’s tax and policy megabill passed last summer. The rule released Tuesday would create new limits on the taxes based on provider and state, phase down allowable taxes in Medicaid expansion states and strengthen federal oversight of the arrangements. CMS actuaries estimate the changes will lower the federal government’s Medicaid spending by $246 billion…
[ad_1] Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Nonprofit health systems AdventHealth and Intermountain Health have taken the first step toward inking a partnership to unite their services in the Denver area. The proposed joint venture would bring together AdventHealth’s five hospitals, urgent care centers, medical practices and off-site emergency clinics around Denver with Intermountain’s three hospitals and related practices in the area, the systems announced Tuesday. AdventHealth and Intermountain have signed a letter of intent and anticipate signing a definitive agreement in the next few weeks.…
[ad_1] Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. workers say they’re staying in a job they dislike because they’re worried about losing their health insurance, according to a report published this week. The number of workers reporting “job lock” is up from just five years ago, when 1 in 6 said they stayed in a job they would otherwise leave to keep their health benefits, according to the study published Tuesday by West Health and Gallup. The rise comes as premiums, drug…
[ad_1] Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The Department of Labor’s employee benefits arm proposed a rule Wednesday that would allow insurers to share mandatory group health plan disclosures with their beneficiaries electronically. Many of the communications, like summary plan descriptions, claims denials or notices that coverage can continue after a job loss, are currently sent via physical mail. But if the rule is finalized, plans will be able to post the documents online and notify a member by text or email when a disclosure is available.…
[ad_1] What are you up to this weekend? Our AC is broken, so we’ve decamped to our friends’ house for a few days. We’re going to watch The Sheep Detectives — I think I’m more excited than the boys are! Hope you have a good one — stay safe with this wildfire air — and here are a few links from around the web… The new series Ride or Die looks really fun and gets a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. When A.I. is a part of the family — the profile, of a single mom, her two daughters, and a chatbot in Cleveland, blew my…
[ad_1] How was your weekend? A few months ago, a CoJ reader named Molly asked if we could share weekend recaps now and again, so here’s mine, and please share yours in the comments, if you’d like… My honorary niece Grace, who lives in England, is spending the summer doing medical research in New York — I’m so happy she’s here! Since Saturday was very rainy, we took her to Art of Play, a magic and games store in Brooklyn Heights. We loved playing with the little puzzles. If you figure one out, the shop owner rings a bell, which…