The Nevada Donor Network will manage organ procurement services in Southern Florida, CMS said Jan. 8, after the agency decertified the Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency in September. The Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency was a division of the University of Miami Health System. On Sept. 18, CMS decertified the organ procurement organization from Medical […]
Continue ReadingSalt Lake City-based Intermountain Health has named Eric Liston as regional president for its Canyons Region, effective Feb. 15. The Canyons Region includes all Intermountain hospitals, clinics and community programs from Central Utah north into Idaho, according to a Jan. 9 health system news release. Mr. Liston has been with Intermountain for 25 years, most […]
Continue ReadingSACRAMENTO, Calif. — Many low-income Californians prescribed wildly popular weight loss drugs lost their coverage for the medications at the start of the new year. Health officials are recommending diet and exercise as alternatives to heavily advertised weight loss drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound, advice experts say is unrealistic. “Of course he tried eating well […]
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NEW ORLEANS — From the outside, the abandoned Family Dollar store in the Lower 9th Ward looks intimidating. It’s covered in graffiti, with aluminum cans and trash dotting the parking lot. It sits on a street with other empty lots and decayed buildings — symbols of the lasting devastation this neighborhood, one of the city’s […]
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NUEVA ORLEANS, Louisiana. — Desde afuera, el antiguo local de la tienda Family Dollar, en el 9th Ward, luce intimidante. Está cubierto de grafitis y en el estacionamiento hay latas de aluminio y basura. Está ubicado en una calle con otros terrenos baldíos y edificios en ruinas: símbolos de la devastación persistente que este vecindario, […]
Continue ReadingThe Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A […]
Continue ReadingAs drug pricing pressure intensifies and benefit structures shift, some health systems are still treating biosimilars as a selective cost lever — deploying them in certain payer segments while preserving legacy models elsewhere. Geisinger made a different call. Rather than adopting biosimilars incrementally, the Danville, Pa.-based health system moved to a biosimilar-first strategy across all […]
Continue ReadingRobert Cavagnol, MD, was appointed president for Carle Health’s Bloomington-Normal Service Area. Dr. Cavagnol will step into the role Feb. 2, succeeding Colleen Kannaday, who is retiring after 15 years leading Carle BroMenn Medical Center in Normal, Ill., and Carle Eureka (Ill.) Hospital, according to a Jan. 7 news release from the health system. As […]
Continue ReadingYork, Pa.-based WellSpan Health is migrating its entire technology infrastructure to the cloud through a partnership with Amazon Web Services. The health system will transition its applications, data and IT environments from traditional data centers to AWS, with the migration expected to be completed by April 2026, according to a Jan. 8 news release. The […]
Continue ReadingFormer Jefferson Health CEO Stephen Klasko, MD, and Providence CEO emeritus Rod Hochman, MD, have joined the governance and advisory ranks of AmplifyMD. Dr. Klasko has been appointed to the board of directors, and Dr. Hochman has joined as a strategic advisor, according to a Jan. 8 news release from AmplifyMD. The company is a […]
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