Thursday, February 23, 2023: Providers

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) leaders say the agency has handed out nearly 500 warnings to hospitals falling short on price transparency as of January and plans to streamline enforcement and standardize hospital reporting requirements. Enforcement...

Thursday, February 23, 2023: Payers

A federal judge has temporarily forbidden a former Cigna executive from taking a position at CVS Health as part of an anti-poaching lawsuit. CVS Health hired Amy Bricker, then president of Cigna’s Express Scripts pharmacy benefit manager subsidiary, to be chief...

Thursday, February 23, 2023: M&A

UnitedHealth has closed its $5.4 billion acquisition of home health business LHC Group, continuing a trend of payers elbowing into direct care delivery. LHC Group will be folded into UnitedHealth’s Optum subsidiary. The combination will allow Optum and LHC to...