Morning Headlines 10/21/24
Refusal of Recovery: How Medicare Advantage Insurers Have Denied Patients Access to Post-Acute Care
A US Senate subcommittee report finds that UnitedHealthcare, Humana, and CVS disproportionately denied prior authorization requests for post-acute care in their Medicare Advantage patients, often by using AI-driven tools.
Healthcare workforce management software vendor Prolucent announces an undisclosed amount of funding from customer Northwell Health’s investment subsidiary.
Federal contractor ASRC Federal Data Solutions will pay $306,722 to settle False Claims Act allegations that it stored unencrypted screenshots of Medicare beneficiary data from CMS systems on a subcontractor’s server.
Weird that Google can acknowledge its crowdsourced medical advice was wrong, but escape penalties for doing it wantonly at scale.