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Medicare Advantage patients might be in for a rude awakening as CVS plans to get rid of 10 percent of its plans. CVS Health made the decision to cut the Aetna health insurance plans in an effort to prioritize profit margins, company leaders revealed this week. “The goal next year is margin over membership,” CFO…
Experts have warned of a “silver tsunami” as America’s population undergoes a huge demographic shift in the near future. The population of the U.S. is ageing. Recent findings from the U.S. Census Bureau indicate that by 2035 older adults will outnumber children—a first in U.S. history. The upcoming changes could lead to a number of…
When Sonia García and Stas Sokolin decided to launch Amae Health to solve the broken care system for people with severe mental illness, they were already intimately familiar with the industry’s issues. “I started thinking about this problem a very long time ago,” said Sokolin, Amae’s CEO. “I grew up with a sister who had…
The ransomware gang that hacked into U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare used a set of stolen credentials to remotely access the company’s systems that weren’t protected by multi-factor authentication, according to the chief executive of its parent company, UnitedHealth. UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty provided the written testimony ahead of a House subcommittee hearing on…
Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering this week’s noteworthy happenings in tech. TikTok’s fate in the U.S. looks uncertain after President Joe Biden signed a bill that included a deadline for ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, to divest itself of TikTok within nine months or face a ban on distributing it…
Californians could see a major overhaul in health care policy as the state looks to advance a new bill promising universal coverage. The state has previously introduced laws that would bring universal health care to residents, but so far, none have been successful. The new bill, AB 2200, calls for a single-payer system called CalCare,…
U.S. health conglomerate Kaiser is notifying millions of its members of a data breach earlier this month. In a legally required notice filed with the U.S. government on April 12 but made public on Thursday, the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan confirmed that 13.4 million residents had information taken in a data breach. The notice did…
One woman was dramatically dropped from her Medicare coverage in the middle of Stage IV cancer treatment, and now others are worried their insurance could disappear without warning. Pam Ellis, a North Carolinian grandmother, is undergoing treatment for a type of cancer known as MALT lymphoma. She’s also battling the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid…
Generative AI, which can create and analyze images, text, audio, videos and more, is increasingly making its way into healthcare, pushed by both Big Tech firms and startups alike. Google Cloud, Google’s cloud services and products division, is collaborating with Highmark Health, a Pittsburgh-based nonprofit healthcare company, on generative AI tools designed to personalize the…
For months, Change Healthcare has faced an immensely messy ransomware debacle that has left hundreds of pharmacies and medical practices across the United States unable to process claims. Now, thanks to an apparent dispute within the ransomware criminal ecosystem, it may have just become far messier still. In March, the ransomware group AlphV, which had…
