Bruce Japsen
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Chicago, IL, United States
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Despite Rising Costs, Big Health Insurers Should Do Just Fine
Rising medical costs are hitting health insurer stocks lately but these diversified companies should be just fine when they report earnings in the coming weeks. → Read More
Rite Aid Not Ruling Out More Store Closures As Losses Mount
Rite Aid executives aren’t ruling out more store closures as the company sustains more financial losses while they’re working their turnaround plan. → Read More
Cigna Profits Top $1 Billion With 1M New Health Plan Members Forecast For 2023
Cigna reported nearly $1.2 billion in fourth quarter 2022 net income and forecasts the addition of "at least" 1.2 million new medical customers in 2023. → Read More
City Of Hope Expands Brand To Cancer Treatment Centers Of America Hospitals
City of Hope will extend its brand to the Cancer Treatment Centers of America facilities it acquired last year. → Read More
Elevance Health To Buy Louisiana Blue Cross Plan
Elevance Health will buy Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, adding to its family of Anthem Blue Cross plans in 14 other states. → Read More
Rite Aid Loss Hits $67 Million As Covid Shots And Testing Decline
Rite Aid reported a quarterly loss of more than $67 million due in part to “a reduction in COVID vaccine and testing revenue.” → Read More
Amazon Could Fuel Doctor Buyouts In 2023 If One Medical Deal Goes Through
The already hot market of buying physician practices is about to get even hotter should Amazon’s proposed acquisition of One Medical win regulatory approval. → Read More
Employers Brace For 5% Health Cost Spike Next Year On Top Of General Inflation
U.S. employers must brace for healthcare cost increases at more than 5% for next year “and beyond,” new data from Mercer shows. → Read More
Medicaid Expansion Wins In Red State South Dakota
Voters in South Dakota approved a ballot measure to extend Medicaid benefits to more than 40,000 low-income adults. → Read More
Walgreens And CVS Aren’t Done With Primary Care Buying Binges
Walgreens and CVS Health aren’t done gobbling up primary care assets even after spending billions of dollars in the last two years. → Read More
Walgreens Finalizes CareCentrix Home Care Investment As Rivals Bid On Signify Health
Walgreens has completed its $330 million majority stake investment in post acute and home care company CareCentrix. → Read More
Health Insurance Lobby Rolls Out Mental Health Goals As ‘Whole Person Care’ Takes Hold
AHIP, the lobby for the health insurance industry, committed to “further improve access to mental health care and substance use disorder treatment for every American.” → Read More
Johnson & Johnson And Hospital Giant HCA To Tackle Health Equity
HCA Healthcare and Johnson & Johnson said they will collaborate “on improving health equity, enhancing nursing support, and improving patient outcomes.” → Read More
Humana Reaps $696 Million Profit On Medicare Growth And Lower Costs
Humana reported nearly $700 million in profits in the second quarter thanks to lower than expected medical and administrative costs. → Read More
How Amazon’s One Medical Deal Makes Buying Doctor Practices More Expensive For CVS, Walgreens And Walmart
Amazon's $3.9 billion purchase of One Medical's doctor-staffed clinics will make primary care practices more expensive for CVS, Walmart and Walgreens. → Read More
Walgreens Won’t Sell U.K. Boots Pharmacies After All
Walgreens Boots Alliance won’t be selling its Boots pharmacies in the United Kingdom following a strategic review of buyers. → Read More
Michael Niedorff, Longtime CEO Of Health Insurer Centene, Dies At 79
Michael Neidorff, the longtime chief executive officer of Centene has died, the company confirmed Thursday. He was 79. → Read More
Alignment Healthcare Posts Loss Despite Medicare Advantage Growth
Alignment Healthcare, a provider of Medicare Advantage, reported a $47 million loss in its most recent quarter even as health plan membership took off. → Read More
Biden’s Mental Health Strategy Fits Insurers’ ‘Whole Person’ Wheelhouse
President Joe Biden’s proposal to invest more in mental health should compliment an effort by health insurers to integrate behavioral care with medical treatment. → Read More
Global Health Pioneer Paul Farmer Dies
Global health pioneer Dr. Paul Farmer died unexpectedly Monday in Rwanda. → Read More