Compliance & Legal
Benefits will now be distributed to the subscribers who sued Blue Cross more than a decade ago.
Having a central repository for consent would promote both interoperability and health equity, says Daniel Stein, president of Stewards of Change Institute.
A deal between Express Scripts and Prime Therapeutics served solely as a price-fixing mechanism, the suit alleges.
Organizations say the proposals are legally and operationally flawed and could hinder access rather than facilitate it.
The retail store and pharmacy will continue operations, but will close underperforming stores, company says.
The State of California identified several violations in the plan's provision of behavioral healthcare services to enrollees.
Most of the selected diagnosis codes that Aetna submitted to CMS didn't comply with federal requirements, OIG says.
HHS said the revisions make "necessary improvements" to meet the demands of changes in biomedical and behavioral research.
Combined Essentia Health, Marshfield Clinic would create 25 hospital system in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, North Dakota.
Insurers are now precluded by federal regulation from implementing co-pay accumulators for drugs that lack generic equivalents.