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APRIL 2, 2024

Big-box retailer Costco is expanding its reach into healthcare services with a new weight loss program for members. | Big-box retailer Costco is expanding its reach into healthcare services with a new weight loss program for members.

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DECEMBER 12, 2023

Optum Rx is launching a new weight management program aimed at improving outcomes and addressing affordability. Optum Rx is launching a new weight management program aimed at improving outcomes and addressing affordability.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2024

ChristianaCare said Thursday it is expanding the medication adherence program to all primary care practice patients through its Center for Virtual Health. "Scaling this program to our entire patient population shows how much ChristianaCare believes in asynchronous care through remote patient monitoring.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 14, 2024

The Mayo Clinic Platform's Solutions Studio program will work with digital health companies "from idea to integration into clinical workflows." Mayo Clinic wants to help digital health more quickly—and more cost-effectively—bring its innovations into the hospital. |

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Elevance Health's CarelonRx will begin offering a weight management program, providing its members access to digital-first coaching and wellness tools. Elevance Health's CarelonRx will begin offering a weight management program for members, including those that take GLP-1 medications.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Programs could begin some medication treatment via telehealth under the rule, which the agency argues will remove transportation barriers and expand access to care.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Elevance Health's pharmacy benefit manager, CarelonRx, is launching a new program that aims to make it easier for members to access drug discounts at the pharmacy counter.

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MARCH 5, 2024

Zocdoc, which partners with electronic health records and practice management software vendors to give providers real-time online scheduling and other free tools that complement their existing workflows, announced a new partner program Tuesday that it said can drive revenue and growth for scheduling software companies and providers.

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MARCH 6, 2024

South Metropolitan Health Service in Western Australia started digitising its pre-surgery program three years after its launch. It recently awarded a tender to Personify Care to provide, host, and deliver ongoing support to a SaaS application that will underpin its LifeFit-SurgFit Program.

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Knownwell, an integrated primary and obesity care provider, is launching a new teen program for weight management. | The new program aims to create a patient-focused environment to uncover and treat the root cause of early obesity.

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MARCH 5, 2024

Zocdoc, which partners with electronic health records and practice management software vendors to give providers real-time online scheduling and other free tools that complement their existing workflows, announced a new partner program Tuesday that it said can drive revenue and growth for scheduling software companies and providers.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a rule Monday to streamline enrollment in Medicare Savings Programs (MSPs) with the aim of making coverage affordable for 860,000 mo | A $26.16 billion CMS rule will streamline Medicare Savings Program enrollment, reducing administrative burden in the process.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Several COVID-era flexibilities relied upon by opioid treatment programs and their hundreds of thousands of patients will become permanent later this year, the Substance Abuse and Mental Healt | The final rule allows some providers to prescribe medication for opioid use disorder like buprenorphine via telehealth without an initial in-person exam.

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

Kaiser Permanente is expanding its medical-legal partnership program to bring housing-related legal services to members and communities across seven of its regions. | The program is in partnership with the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership and Health Begins.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Chronic care provider Omada Health is expanding its GLP-1 program to better care for patients interested in maintaining weight loss progress while discontinuing usage of the drugs.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

The offering is a virtual intensive outpatient program targeted at college students ages 18 through 25 with higher-acuity conditions. Lightfully Behavioral Health, a hybrid mental health provider, has launched a new offering to support college students.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Covenant Health expanded its high acuity care hospital-at-home program in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Tuesday. "Patients at home – they recover better, their satisfaction is better," said Dr. John Busigin, medical director for the program. "The food is better, and I can be around my family," Slone said.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 16, 2024

Maven Clinic is expanding its fertility and family building program with additional providers and platform enhancements to streamline patient data and invoicing. | Maven has shared the details of its health coaching program, focused on natural conception, and has enhanced its provider portal to enable partner clinics to get paid quickly.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Digital health company Hims & Hers launched its much-anticipated weight loss program this week that includes digital tracking tools, educational content and access to medications.

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DECEMBER 26, 2023

Three components to the program The health system's Virtual Provider program has a few components to it. "We strive to provide each patient the right care at the right time, and this program serves that purpose. We typically see patients who are candidates for this program who have unmanaged hypertension and diabetes."

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 4, 2024

Change's temporary funding program 'not even a Band-Aid,' AHA president says, as White House reportedly mulls financial relief agliadkovskaya Mon, 03/04/2024 - 14:07

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Researchers reviewed almost 300 pieces of literature on 340B and found some studies suggested hospitals were using savings from the program for purposes “seemingly unrelated” to patient care.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 20, 2024

million in funding and announced the launch of its integrated care program, LunaCare. Drawing on financial and strategic support from Y Combinator, FoundersX Fund, Goodwater Capital and others, LunaJoy plans to roll out its new program in current markets, to be expanded later this year, and to staff up.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 5, 2023

The quality bonus program (QBP) that rewards Medicare Advantage (MA) plans fails to achieve its two main goals: fairly rewarding MA insurers that actually improve quality and encouraging beneficiar | The Medicare Advantage Quality Bonus Program suffers from what some experts call the “Lake Wobegon Effect”: Too many plans are rated above average.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Ayble Health, a digital health platform focused on chronic gastrointestinal conditions, has unveiled a mind-gut program. |

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Papa’s New Impact Programs Add Value for Health Plans jpiatt Wed, 02/07/2024 - 12:00

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

The tie-up with a healthcare technology company lets Medicare Advantage, Medicaid and other employer benefits program recipients use services at the grocer’s pharmacies as well as buy eligible food and over-the-counter items.

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MAY 2, 2022

Walmart Health's telehealth company MeMD launched a virtual care diabetes program this past week aimed at helping individuals improve management of the disease. "Our program focuses on a patient’s physical and mental health, which also helps employers maintain healthier workforces and drive down overall healthcare costs.

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Fierce Healthcare

MAY 31, 2023

BENTONVILLE, Arkansas—Retail giant Walmart will roll out a new program that aims to assist employees of its vision centers in advancing their careers. Retail giant Walmart will roll out a new program that aims to assist employees of its vision centers in advancing their careers.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

The program builds on Humana’s acquisition of home-based primary care provider Heal earlier this year, and could eventually expand to 10 additional southern and southwestern states.

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Fierce Healthcare

APRIL 22, 2024

Cigna has announced a new multiyear initiative that aims to invest in improving youth mental health. Cigna has announced a new multiyear initiative that aims to invest in improving youth mental health.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The Joint Commission has announced a voluntary sustainability certification program for hospitals. | The program provides a framework to help organizations undertake decarbonization efforts and to receive public recognition. It was originally proposed as mandatory but changed to voluntary after industry pushback.

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JUNE 27, 2023

Although industry analysts have focused on staffing shortages following the coronavirus pandemic, the program aims to address a gap in business skills for healthcare executives.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

EHNAC, the standards development organization and accrediting body for electronically exchanged healthcare data, and the multi-sector collaborative CARIN Alliance have created the CARIN Code of Conduct Accreditation Program to advance the interoperability of health information and comply with data standardization requirements.

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Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 19, 2023

UnitedHealthcare launches behavioral health coaching program for commercial plans pminemyer Thu, 01/19/2023 - 15:05

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

YouTube announced two programs Thursday that the Google-owned video platform said will give healthcare content creators new opportunities to educate diverse audiences. | The two new initiatives leverage cultural representation and targeted messaging to reach audiences impacted by health inequity, Google's Garth Graham, M.D.,

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