Thursday, January 6, 2022: Health IT

International Business Machines Corp. is once again trying to sell IBM Watson Health, which includes a health care data and analytics company and population health and medical imaging businesses. IBM, which failed to attract a buyer for Watson Health last year, aims...

Wednesday, January 5, 2022: Payers

A report from the HHS Office of Inspector General found that roughly 20 percent of the $8 billion Medicare spent on lab tests in 2020 went toward COVID-19 tests. COVID-19 drove up Medicare’s overall spending on tests by 4 percent from 2019 to 2020, but spending...

Wednesday, January 5, 2022: M&A

Centene Corporation announced it completed its $2.2 billion acquisition of Magellan Health. The combination will create one of the country’s largest behavioral health platforms, including 41 million unique members. In addition to its behavioral health platform,...