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Zelis has introduced an in-network pricing/contract modeling service for health plans. According to the release, the solution offers a “clear expectation of cost” so that health plans can more accurately price contracted claims. It also provides access to Zeli’s library of pricing methodologies, letting health plans almost instantly price against any contracted rates.
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2 years ago Read more at PYMNTS.com

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin instituted the policy after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. The policy sparked outrage in some circles and led Alabama Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville to hold up hundreds of military promotions for months in a failed attempt to get the Pentagon to rescind it.
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2 years ago Read more at ABC News

Optum subsidiary filed notice with state’s Health Policy Commission. The sale is part of Steward’s plan to bolster its national system of 33 hospitals. Steward Health Care, grappling with a financial crisis, has moved to shore up its finances.
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2 years ago Read more at The Boston Globe

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum has asked a judge to force Providence Health & Services to turn over documents in an investigation of the health system’s charity care program. The department said it’s investigating the practice as a “potential” violation of the state’s Unlawful Trade Practices Act, a consumer protection law, as well as charity care laws that require the nonprofit health system to provide free care to low-income patients in exchange for its various tax exemptions.
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2 years ago Read more at OregonLive

Laredo Health Department is advising the community to continue to practice preventative care by staying up to date with vaccines. Currently, flu levels are low in the community, with more than 500 cases registered in the city.
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2 years ago Read more at KGNS

On March 12, the Health Education Pathways Program hosted a Professions and Majors in Health Care Fair in the Titan Student Union Pavilion. The event introduces students to the wide array of professional fields and job opportunities available in health care and behavioral health care. A total of 251 students attended the event.
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2 years ago Read more at CSUF News

A total of 300 women came together in a lawsuit against a Chicago OB/GYN. Fabio Ortega, now 77, pleaded guilty to sexually abusing two of his patients in October 2021. The lawsuit filed Monday details alleged sex abuse stemming back to the early 1990s.
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2 years ago Read more at CBS News

The birthing center at Mercy Health - Fairfield Hospital will shut down as of May 1. Officials say there is capacity for additional deliveries at both hospitals. Nurse FOX19 spoke with says employees were recently notified of closure.
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2 years ago Read more at FOX19

Justice Elena Kagan wondered whether a medical procedure qualifies as an abortion if there is no fetal “live tissue” And Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson shared her understanding that pregnancy tissue remaining in the body after a medication abortion doesn’t necessarily require “surgical intervention” Four of the nine justices who heard Tuesday’s highly anticipated Supreme Court oral arguments are women. All three attorneys who argued the case, on both sides, are also women, a relative rarity in the male-dominated Supreme Court bar.
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2 years ago Read more at The Washington Post

The Supreme Court may be about to hand them a legal road map. Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Clarence Thomas repeatedly invoked the Comstock Act during Tuesday’s oral arguments regarding the abortion drug mifepristone. The Biden administration has staunchly opposed efforts to interpret Comstock as banning the mailing of abortion drugs.
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2 years ago Read more at The Washington Post