Tag: healthcare marketplace

California’s single-payer health care boondoggle is back and worse than ever

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Karl Marx could have predicted the future of California when he said that history repeats itself – first as tragedy, then as farce. The tragedy is a state budget of $225.9 billion this year, with a budget deficit equivalent to nearly one-third of that figure – $73 billion, according to the latest estimate from the state Legislative Analyst’s Office. The farce is California state Assemblyman Ash Kalra, a Democrat, re-introducing legislation to ban private health insurance and force all Californians into a single, publicly run health plan – at a cost estimated…Continue Reading

Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Initiative to Increase Investments in Person-Centered Primary Care

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ACO Primary Care Flex Model aims to improve access to high-quality primary care for underserved Medicare populations Today, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), announced a new voluntary model that empowers primary care providers in eligible Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to treat people with Medicare using innovative, team-based, person-centered proactive care. A key part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts to further promote competition in health care, the ACO Primary Care Flex Model (ACO PC Flex Model) will provide a one-time advanced shared savings payment and monthly prospective primary…Continue Reading

AHS staff face job terminations and transfer offers in the midst of health-care overhaul

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Health-care staff are now being shifted from Alberta Health Services to the provincial health department as the province forces ahead with its controversial and sweeping restructuring plans. The Alberta government announced its intention late last year to hive off health-care provisions into four key organizations, and reduce AHS to the role of a hospital care provider. So far, 126 AHS staff have been terminated but have been presented with “equivalent” job offers within Alberta Health, according to the province. A government spokesperson has confirmed the impacted staff are from the departments of capital planning, system planning, continuing care and procurement.…Continue Reading

Hackers Behind the Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack Just Received a $22 Million Payment

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That affiliate hacker also wrote that in their penetration of Change Healthcare’s network, they had accessed the data of numerous other health care firms partnered with the company. If that claim is accurate, Recorded Future’s Smilyanets points out, it creates the additional risk that the affiliate hacker still possesses sensitive medical information. Even if Change Healthcare did pay AlphV, the hacker affiliate could still demand additional payment or leak the data independently. “The affiliates still have this data, and they’re mad they didn’t receive this money,” says Smilyanets. “It’s a good lesson for everyone. You cannot trust criminals; their word…Continue Reading