# health plan (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover health plan. Page: Feed: --- ## [Why peptide purity matters: HPLC, mass spectrometry and reproducibility in research](https://www.healthcarebusinesstoday.com/why-peptide-purity-matters-hplc-mass-spectrometry-and-reproducibility-in-research/) _2026-08-26 · Editorial Team · Healthcare Business Today_ Peptides are small enough to be made with precision yet peptides are complex enough that tiny chemical differences can change the results of experiments. A missing amino acid, a residue a by-product of synthesis or a compound that is misidentified can add variables that are hard to notice once the experiment has started. That is ... Read more The post Why peptide purity matters: HPLC, mass… ## [What Medicare Advantage’s New Star Ratings Mean for Community Health Workers](https://www.healthcarebusinesstoday.com/medicare-advantage-star-ratings-community-health-workers/) _2026-08-26 · Timmy Yu · Healthcare Business Today_ Every day, approximately 11,200 Americans turn 65 and gain access to Medicare. More than half of them will enroll in Medicare Advantage, yet some will still fall through the gaps that the program was designed to close. Medicare benefits only improve health if people are able to use them. Connecting to a Primary Care Provider ... Read more The post What Medicare Advantage’s New Star Ratings Mean… ## [Hair transplant with an arrhythmia: what to check first](https://www.healthcarebusinesstoday.com/hair-transplant-with-an-arrhythmia-what-to-check-first/) _2026-08-25 · Abby Michaels · Healthcare Business Today_ You live with an arrhythmia, perhaps a ventricular one, and you are wondering whether restoring your hair is even on the table. The honest answer sits somewhere between a flat no and an easy yes: it hangs on a proper cardiac work-up and on what your cardiologist has to say. Put plainly, the procedure remains ... Read more The post Hair transplant with an arrhythmia: what to check first appeared… ## [The Facility Risks Healthcare Leaders Miss Early](https://www.healthcarebusinesstoday.com/the-facility-risks-healthcare-leaders-miss-early/) _2026-08-25 · Healthcare Business Today · Healthcare Business Today_ Facility problems often grow quietly. See which overlooked risks healthcare leaders should catch early before operations and patient care feel the impact. The post The Facility Risks Healthcare Leaders Miss Early appeared first on Healthcare Business Today . ## [Product Review: VentaPak Offers a Simple Solution to an Annoying Backpack Problem](https://www.healthcarebusinesstoday.com/ventapak-backpack-spacer-review/) _2026-08-25 · Daniel Casciato · Healthcare Business Today_ Sometimes the best products solve problems you don’t give much thought to until someone points out there might be a better way. That’s how I would describe the VentaPak. If you’ve ever gone hiking, ridden a bike or simply walked any distance with a backpack on a warm day, you know the feeling. It doesn’t ... Read more The post Product Review: VentaPak Offers a Simple Solution to an Annoying… ## [Why First Impressions Start at the Front Door](https://www.healthcarebusinesstoday.com/why-first-impressions-start-at-the-front-door/) _2026-08-25 · Healthcare Business Today · Healthcare Business Today_ The front door of your healthcare space matters more than people realize. This is the turning point of first impressions—good or bad. Learn more here. The post Why First Impressions Start at the Front Door appeared first on Healthcare Business Today . ## [Healthcare costs could rise by nearly 10% in 2027](https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/healthcare-costs-projected-to-rise-in-2027/828719/) _2026-08-25 · Lara Ewen · Healthcare Dive - Latest News_ Employers cover more than 80% of the burden, but employees will also be hit by rising costs, an Aon report found. ## [Hospital Warehouses: What They Are and Their Benefits](https://www.healthcarebusinesstoday.com/hospital-warehouses-what-they-are-and-their-benefits/) _2026-08-25 · Healthcare Business Today · Healthcare Business Today_ Hospital warehouses keep medical supplies organized and accessible when staff need them most. Here's what they are and why more hospitals are using them. The post Hospital Warehouses: What They Are and Their Benefits appeared first on Healthcare Business Today . ## [VA deploys Oracle EHR to 3 medical centers in Indiana](https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/va-deploys-oracle-ehr-to-3-medical-centers-in-indiana/828682/) _2026-08-25 · Jill Hughes · Healthcare Dive - Latest News_ The Department of Veterans Affairs is making progress on its goal to add the new electronic health record to all of its medical centers. Past deployments have been plagued by technical challenges and delays. ## [Health systems warn patients of MyChart phishing scam](https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/health-systems-warn-patients-of-mychart-phishing-scam/828597/) _2026-08-24 · Jill Hughes · Healthcare Dive - Latest News_ Epic says that the increase in phishing attempts are just cybercriminals taking advantage of the MyChart brand rather than a security concern. ## [Reach prospects with real signals (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/kdkvGq1HYnMc) _2026-08-24 · **Sponsored**_ Find prospects talking about your problem and get context-backed moments to engage ## [Mass General Brigham hires Vanderbilt exec for inaugural nurse role](https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/mass-general-brigham-appoints-vanderbilt-exec-inaugural-nurse-role-karen-keady/828564/) _2026-08-24 · Sydney Halleman · Healthcare Dive - Latest News_ Karen Keady's appointment comes a month after about 4,500 clinicians at Mass General Brigham went on strike, hoping to secure better wages and other benefits. ## [Transparency was never a pivot. It’s always been how we work.](https://www.healthcaredive.com/spons/transparency-was-never-a-pivot-its-always-been-how-we-work/827824/) _2026-08-24 · Ed DeVaney, EVP & President, CVS Caremark · Healthcare Dive - Latest News_ We've been building the PBM of the future. Let me share what that means. ## [Healthcare was built around specialties. Patients experience it as one journey.](https://www.healthcaredive.com/spons/healthcare-was-built-around-specialties-patients-experience-it-as-one-jour/827855/) _2026-08-24 · Dr. Shantanu Agrawal, Chief Health Officer, Elevance Health · Healthcare Dive - Latest News_ Care coordination starts by designing healthcare around people, not disconnected systems. ## [Using Predictive Analytics to Improve Population Health](https://www.healthcarebusinesstoday.com/predictive-analytics-population-health/) _2026-08-23 · Antonio Segovia Noriega · Healthcare Business Today_ Too often, healthcare follows a reactive cycle of identifying symptoms and treating illnesses after they occur. But this approach simply isn’t sufficient anymore. Modern healthcare systems need to start anticipating medical issues, identifying risk earlier, recognizing patterns sooner, and helping clinicians intervene before conditions become more serious. Health IT leaders have a unique… ## [The Warning Every High Performer Hopes to Avoid](https://www.healthcarebusinesstoday.com/high-performers-monitor-health-early/) _2026-08-22 · Vincent Caradec · Healthcare Business Today_ There is a particular kind of confidence that comes with building something from nothing. You learn to push through fatigue, to treat sleep as negotiable, and to read your own exhaustion as proof that you are finally working hard enough. For a while it works. The body absorbs the strain quietly, the results on the ... Read more The post The Warning Every High Performer Hopes to Avoid appeared… ## [Your Biological Age Isn’t the Number on Your Birthday Cake](https://www.healthcarebusinesstoday.com/biological-age-vs-chronological-age/) _2026-08-22 · Dr. Sarassawadee “Petch” Suwanjinda · Healthcare Business Today_ Two people can be born on the same day and be very different ages — not in years, but in biology. One might have the arteries, metabolism and immune resilience of someone a decade younger; the other, a decade older. The number on the birthday cake is fixed. The age of the body underneath it ... Read more The post Your Biological Age Isn’t the Number on Your Birthday Cake appeared first on… ## [Capital Without Compromising Care: Legal Considerations for Structuring Sale-Leasebacks of Healthcare Real Estate](https://www.healthcarebusinesstoday.com/healthcare-sale-leaseback-legal-risks/) _2026-08-22 · David Nelson, Jennifer Kreick and Jeremy Herskowitz · Healthcare Business Today_ Sale-leasebacks involving healthcare real estate – which are specialized commercial properties such as hospitals, clinics, and medical office buildings – can be a powerful tool for healthcare organizations. When properly structured, these transactions can provide healthcare organizations with much-needed financial flexibility and real estate investment firms with attractive assets, often resulting… ## [Healthcare AI Should Help Experts Work Faster, Not Replace Their Judgment](https://www.healthcarebusinesstoday.com/healthcare-ai-expert-judgment/) _2026-08-22 · Anindita Nath · Healthcare Business Today_ Healthcare already has more knowledge than most people can realistically navigate. Research papers, genomic databases, clinical guidelines, public health dashboards, internal records, metadata systems, and regulatory guidance all contain valuable information. The issue is that much of it is hard to find, hard to interpret, or hard to apply at the moment someone actually needs ... Read more The… ## [Doctors say they feel pressured to prioritize corporate interests over patients: report](https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/doctors-say-they-feel-pressured-to-prioritize-corporate-interests-over-pati/828503/) _2026-08-21 · Jill Hughes · Healthcare Dive - Latest News_ A survey from a doctor's lobby says burnout is rising as a growing number of doctors are employed by corporations. ## [The Cosmetic Classification Gap: When a Prescription Drug Has No Insurance Pathway](https://www.healthcarebusinesstoday.com/the-cosmetic-classification-gap-when-a-prescription-drug-has-no-insurance-pathway/) _2026-08-21 · Editorial Team · Healthcare Business Today_ Most conversations about drug affordability assume a payer sits somewhere in the transaction. There is a category of medicine where none does. A drug can carry full FDA approval, sit behind a prescription requirement, and still be classified as cosmetic by essentially every commercial plan, which means the patient pays one hundred percent of the ... Read more The post The Cosmetic Classification… ## [Follow Releases, Get Reminders (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/G0qvKKkjSqJv) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Follow a genre or a name and receive reminders on release day — free. ## [Why Medical Practice Exit Planning Should Begin Years Before a Sale](https://www.healthcarebusinesstoday.com/medical-practice-exit-planning-before-sale/) _2026-08-21 · Daniel Casciato · Healthcare Business Today_ For physicians who have spent decades building a medical practice, retirement can feel like the natural point to begin thinking about what happens to the business. By then, however, some of the most important decisions affecting a practice’s value have already been made. “One of the biggest misconceptions I see is that exit planning begins ... Read more The post Why Medical Practice Exit Planning… ## [How Cloud-Based Healthcare Administration Is Transforming Claims and Member Management](https://www.healthcarebusinesstoday.com/how-cloud-based-healthcare-administration-is-transforming-claims-and-member-management/) _2026-08-20 · Abby Michaels · Healthcare Business Today_ Healthcare administration has always involved complexity, but the volume of data, transactions and regulatory requirements now moving through health plans and provider organizations is exposing the limitations of older technology. Insurers, third-party administrators (TPAs) and provider networks increasingly need systems that connect claims, enrollment, billing and provider data rather than… ## [Collaborating Physician Cost: Healthcare’s Least Transparent Price Just Got Published](https://www.healthcarebusinesstoday.com/collaborating-physician-cost-study/) _2026-08-20 · Chris Caulfield · Healthcare Business Today_ More than 350,000 nurse practitioners now practice in the United States, and in the majority of states, each of them who runs or joins an independent practice must maintain a collaboration or supervision arrangement with a physician. It’s a mandatory compliance cost, it’s recurring, and until now, almost nobody could tell you what it should ... Read more The post Collaborating Physician Cost:… ## [Sports Leadership Skills in Healthcare Careers](https://www.healthcarebusinesstoday.com/sports-leadership-skills-in-healthcare-careers/) _2026-08-20 · Abby Michaels · Healthcare Business Today_ Unsplash Healthcare hiring carries a quiet bias that never shows up in a job posting: managers lean toward candidates with serious athletic backgrounds. That’s not sentimentality, but rather pattern recognition. Clinical environments reward a particular psychological profile, and competitive sport produces that profile more reliably than almost any other experience. Christopher Podlin belongs to… ## [Flinn Scholar Ariana Rahman Earns 2026 Goldwater Scholarship for Endometriosis Research](https://www.healthcarebusinesstoday.com/flinn-scholar-ariana-rahman-earns-2026-goldwater-scholarship-for-endometriosis-research/) _2026-08-20 · Abby Michaels · Healthcare Business Today_ Women’s health research has long been underfunded and understudied. Few conditions illustrate that gap better than endometriosis, a disease that affects roughly one in ten women of reproductive age yet still takes years, on average, to diagnose. A rising researcher at Arizona State University is working to change that, and this spring the scientific community ... Read more The post Flinn Scholar… ## [Fitch explains how healthcare organizations can keep strong credit ratings despite cyberattacks](https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/water-healthcare-cyberattacks-credit-ratings-fitch/828480/) _2026-08-20 · Eric Geller · Healthcare Dive - Latest News_ Resilience, not prevention, is key, analysts at the credit-rating agency said in a pair of new reports. ## [R1 drills down on AI prior authorizations with Humata buy](https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/r1-drills-down-on-ai-prior-authorizations-with-humata-buy/828382/) _2026-08-20 · Jill Hughes · Healthcare Dive - Latest News_ The revenue cycle company wants to automate claims processing, and RI is banking that Humata's track record of streamlining medical preapprovals should help further that goal. ## [Humana taps physician executive as new chief medical officer](https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/humana-new-chief-medical-officer-shantanu-nundy/828370/) _2026-08-20 · Rebecca Pifer Parduhn · Healthcare Dive - Latest News_ Dr. Shantanu Nundy is joining the Kentucky-based insurer from health navigation firm Accolade. But he's had a varied career - advising the FDA on AI, teaching, working for the World Bank, practicing medicine and more. ## [Enlil Unveils Governed AI Foundation to Ready Medical Device Makers for AI-Assisted Regulatory Review](https://www.healthcarebusinesstoday.com/enlil-governed-ai-medical-device-regulatory-review/) _2026-08-20 · Editorial Team · Healthcare Business Today_ The FDA is already reviewing with AI. Most device makers’ evidence wasn’t built for that. Enlil’s four-layer architecture grounds AI in a unified system of record, so every AI-assisted answer and agent action traces back to controlled records, permissions, and human approval. Enlil, Inc., the AI-powered development traceability platform built for medical device and life ... Read more The post… ## [Azara Healthcare Appoints Ashley Basile as Chief Strategy Officer and Josh Taylor as Chief Revenue Officer](https://www.healthcarebusinesstoday.com/azara-healthcare-ashley-basile-josh-taylor/) _2026-08-20 · Editorial Team · Healthcare Business Today_ Company enters next phase of growth, adding executive leadership to accelerate innovation and strengthen collaboration across the healthcare ecosystem to improve outcomes for underserved communities Azara Healthcare, the four-time Best in KLAS provider of population health and value-based care solutions, recently announced two key additions to its executive leadership team. Ashley Basile joins the… ## [ThreatCrush on GitHub (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/buY1z4DMtaBX) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ View the ThreatCrush listing on the GitHub Marketplace. ## [AssureCare Strengthens Executive Leadership to Accelerate Growth and Meet Rising Market Demand](https://www.healthcarebusinesstoday.com/assurecare-brian-litten-evp-growth-commercialization/) _2026-08-20 · Editorial Team · Healthcare Business Today_ With decades of payer, provider, and pharmacy go-to-market experience, Brian Litten joins as EVP of Growth and Commercialization AssureCare®, a leading AI-powered population health management company, today announced the appointment of Brian Litten as Executive Vice President of Growth and Commercialization. The populations that health plans, health systems, and pharmacies serve are more complex,… ## [Providence names new CFO amid financial turnaround](https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/providence-names-new-cfo-financial-turnaround-kevin-smith/828305/) _2026-08-19 · Sydney Halleman · Healthcare Dive - Latest News_ Kevin Smith will become the nonprofit's new finance chief this fall, succeeding Greg Hoffman who retired in June. Smith's appointment comes as Providence works to improve its operations following years of losses. ## [Providence Health Plan to close completely after Medicare Advantage deal falls through](https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/providence-health-plan-medicare-advantage-deal-fails-closure/828195/) _2026-08-19 · Rebecca Pifer Parduhn · Healthcare Dive - Latest News_ The regional health plan was in talks with an unnamed national insurer to keep its MA plans afloat. But the agreement sputtered "despite significant effort on all sides," a Providence spokesperson said. ## [Federal judge vacates Trump admin restrictions on ACA gender-affirming care](https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/judge-vacates-trump-aca-gender-affirming-care-restrictions/828273/) _2026-08-19 · Sy Mukherjee · Healthcare Dive - Latest News_ The ruling keeps some protections for gender-affirming care in place, but also upholds several other controversial policies paring back the ACA. ## [Trump nominates policy aide Overton to lead FDA](https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/overton-fda-commissioner-trump-white-house-appointment-plans/828307/) _2026-08-19 · Kristin Jensen · Healthcare Dive - Latest News_ Heidi Overton, a medical doctor and veteran of the America First think tank, currently serves as deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. ## [Mayo Clinic taps new CIO as academic medical center doubles down on AI](https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/mayo-clinic-taps-new-cio-as-academic-medical-center-doubles-down-on-ai/828256/) _2026-08-19 · Jill Hughes · Healthcare Dive - Latest News_ Arun Kumar Bhaskara-Baba, who previously held leadership roles at Honeywell Aerospace and Defense and Johnson & Johnson, will join the health system as Mayo works to scale its AI capabilities. ## [‘Ultimately it’s going to be a great financial decision’: UHS CEO speaks on Talkspace bet](https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/uhs-talkspace-acquisition-strategy-marc-miller-interview/828152/) _2026-08-19 · Rebecca Pifer Parduhn · Healthcare Dive - Latest News_ The health system closed its $835 million acquisition of the virtual therapy provider on Monday. Healthcare Dive caught up with Marc Miller to discuss the rationale behind the deal. ## [Epic targets outpatient visits with new AI tool](https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/epic-targets-outpatient-visits-with-new-ai-tool/828230/) _2026-08-19 · Jill Hughes · Healthcare Dive - Latest News_ Ochsner Health in Louisiana is the first to go live with Epic's new outpatient office visit tool, which leans on its artificial intelligence capabilities to pull insights from patient records. ## [Epic debuts instant prior authorization checks at 4 health systems](https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/epic-debuts-instant-prior-authorization-checks-at-4-health-systems/828156/) _2026-08-18 · Jill Hughes · Healthcare Dive - Latest News_ Ochsner Health, Froedtert ThedaCare Health, Denver Health and Summit Health are the first to adopt the application programming interface, which Epic says should speed up preapprovals for medical items and services.