Jeff Lagasse
The AMA said consolidation leaves millions of Americans with more limited health insurer options.
The funding is meant to expand access to mental health support, which has been a particular concern during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Clinical outcomes for undocumented immigrants receiving emergent dialysis show higher death rate, greater length of stay and poorer quality of life.
The insurer expects the move will expand access to care to include members of its Medicare Advantage HMO plans.
The goal is to connect those experiencing a mental health crisis to a behavioral health specialist, rather than law enforcement.
OIG suspected MA companies have financial incentives to make beneficiaries appear as sick as possible.
Mergers enable access to financial resources, clinical expertise and new technology plus increased market power.
Reconciliation bill's addition of vision, hearing and dental to original Medicare should not come at the cost of MA plans, BMA says.
The building will provide space for core instruction and laboratories to extend advances in medicine and healthcare.
Prime's New Jersey hospitals will continue to honor the rates and services in the agreements until the end of the cooling off period.