A rebound in the capital markets drove up Highmark Health’s net income by more than 250% during the first quarter, the nonprofit health system reported Wednesday. The Pittsburgh-based company accumulated $227 million in net income in the quarter after losing $150 million a year before, […]

Novant Health Ballantyne Medical Center to meet the diverse needs …  Novant Health Source link

BY VINCE KURATIS, BRENDAN KEELER, and JODY RANCK Recent regulations have mandated the use of HL7 FHIR APIs (application programming interfaces) to share health data. The regs apply to healthcare providers, payers, and technology developers who participate in federal programs. Many incumbent healthcare organizations are viewing these mandates as […]

Dr. Linda Anegawa, a board-certified obesity medicine physician and Noom’s chief of medicine, said that the decision to offer GLP-1 agonists—the class of medicine that includes drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy and has made waves in the weight loss industry— is part of the company’s […]

A paper by Westrich et al. (2023) examines payer perceptions of five different value frameworks. Value frameworks of interest included: American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Value Framework, Drug Pricing Lab’s Drug Abacus (formerly Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Drug […]

Public Health graduate commissioned as U.S. Air Force Second …  School of Public Health Source link

BY MIKE MAGEE A few weeks ago New York Times columnist Tom Friedman wrote, “We Are Opening The Lid On Two Giant Pandoras Boxes.” He was referring to 1) artificial Intelligence (AI) which most agree has the potential to go horribly wrong unless carefully regulated, […]

Matt Eyles, the head of insurance lobbying group AHIP, announced plans Wednesday to resign from the trade group Oct. 2.  Eyles has served as president and CEO of AHIP for nearly five years and worked at the organization for more than eight years, according to a news […]

Some stats from Citeline’s Pharma R&D Annual Report 2023. And by company sorted by pipeline size as of January 2023: Source link

United Behavioral Health Loses Mental Health Coverage ERISA …  Behavioral Health Business Source link