For Tammy Rainey, finding a healthcare provider who knows about gender-affirming care has been a challenge in the rural northern Mississippi town where she lives. As a transgender woman, Rainey needs the hormone estrogen, which allows her to physically transition by developing more feminine features. But when she asked her doctor for an estrogen prescription,…
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Nurses at MyMichigan Medical Center in Alma are preparing to strike. Of the approximately 150 nurses represented by the Michigan Nurses Association at the mid-Michigan hospital, 97 percent voted in favor of striking, the nurses said in a news release. “Nurses have sent a clear signal to MyMichigan executives,” Shenan Shinabarger, a nurse at MyMichigan…
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Britain faces a severe shortage of doctors who work both in the NHS and at universities, which threatens medical research and teaching, the Lords science and technology committee has warned the government. The peers sent the findings of their inquiry into academic medicine to Steve Barclay, the health secretary, on Thursday, warning that “the clinical…
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PacificSource Health Plans has chosen Dr. John Espinola as its next president and CEO, the nonprofit company announced Wednesday. Espinola will join PacificSource April 3, succeeding Ken Provencher, who is retiring. Espinola will depart Premera Blue Cross, where he served as executive vice president and chief strategy and product officer and as CEO of Kinwell…
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WASHINGTON — A record 16.3 million people sought health insurance through the Affordable Care Act this year, double the number covered when the marketplaces first launched nearly a decade ago, the Biden administration announced Wednesday. More than 3 million new members joined the marketplace, also known as “Obamacare,” according to the Department of Health and…
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Julie Miller-Phipps will retire as president of Kaiser Permanente’s southern California and Hawaii operations in July, marking an end to her 45-year career with the integrated health system, the company announced Tuesday. Miller-Phipps has led the Oakland, California-based company’s business in southern California since 2016 and in Hawaii since 2020. She previously was president of…
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The Kroger Co. is the latest retailer looking to leverage its relationship with consumers to gain share n the clinical trial space. Its healthcare division, Kroger Health, is recruiting participants for the Persephone Biosciences-sponsored Argonaut clinical study, which identifies biomarkers indicating colorectal cancer and other types of solid tumors to help guide treatment options. Select…
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WAUKON, Iowa — Marjorie Kruger was stunned to learn last fall that she would have to leave the nursing home where she’d lived comfortably for six years. The Good Samaritan Society facility in Postville, Iowa, would close, administrators told Kruger and 38 other residents in September. The facility joined a growing list of nursing homes…
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Hospitals’ compliance with the 2021 price transparency law has improved over the past year, but some operators remain reluctant to publicize their pricing data or do not have the resources to do so. As of the end of September, 65% of U.S. hospitals had posted the rates they negotiated with commercial insurers, according to data from data…
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Tougher audits of Medicare Advantage insurers could lead them to more stringently review the patient codes providers submit and the physician-enablement companies that help clinicians take on patient risk. That may dampen the already cool market for value-based primary care startups and digital health businesses, and intensify contract disputes between insurers and companies such as…
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