Susan Morse
HHS has partnered with UnitedHealth Group to provide the rapid payment via Optum Bank and the Automated Clearing House account information on file.
For each person admitted into intensive care, costs, on average, could exceed $30,000, according to an AHIP study.
Walgreens Find Care now includes a COVID-19 risk assessment powered by Microsoft Healthcare Bot on Microsoft Azure.
The challenge of population health is the ability to integrate and share the data for health systems to act upon the information.
CMS has received over 25,000 requests and has approved over 17,000 in the last week.
Nonprofit insurer is working with two financial-services partners to provide financing guarantees, advance payments and restructuring of contracts.
The 21st Century Cures Act requires that CMS phase in changes to risk adjustment payments over a three-year period, with full implementation by 2022.
The American Hospital Association is urging other options, such as opening up a special enrollment period of the Affordable Care Act.
UnitedHealth Group previously announced $50 million to fight COVID-19 by supporting healthcare workers, seniors and hard-hit communities.
Providers continue to face critical shortages of critical care staff, ventilators, masks and other personal protection equipment.