Senators Ron Wyden and Bernie Sanders are calling for accountability in the healthcare industry, demanding transparency from MultiPlan for surprise medical bills. Private equity's control over healthcare is criticized for predatory practices and high costs. UnitedHealth Group faces scrutiny for cybersecurity failures, with calls for FTC and SEC investigations.
You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor’s Bill https://t.co/tFZQyhqpyD
UnitedHealth’s ‘negligent’ cybersecurity needs FTC, SEC scrutiny, Wyden says https://t.co/zroggqdPWh
.@david_wainer: You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor’s Bill: First in a three-part Heard on the Street series on concentration in American healthcare https://t.co/GA46Y1p35v via @WSJ
Listen Here: https://t.co/LNj1ij7tWF In this episode Joe Theine, CEO of Southwest Health System, shares his insights on navigating financial challenges, fostering a strong internal culture, and building a resilient healthcare system for the community. Sponsored by @CHCCORP1 https://t.co/N9P3wcIOdB
'Over the past decade, private equity has spent hundreds of billions of dollars acquiring healthcare businesses from emergency care to anesthesiology to nursing homes. Where private equity has gone, studies show, prices have tended to increase.' https://t.co/IH3rqlFWNb
Private Equity's increasing control of our nation's health care is resulting in higher costs and worse care for patients. I'm leading the fight against private equity and working on bipartisan legislation to increase transparency. https://t.co/MLcYAX7Pgw
The U.S. is a global outlier w/the most expensive healthcare by far. What's unique here is the fact private equity owns much of the hospitals, doctors, nursing homes and other provider networks, forcing predatory billing practices and nonstop price hikes. https://t.co/Dt7loreNCP
Listen Here: https://t.co/Fn3WCrZLuI In this episode, Alan Condon, Editor-in-Chief at Becker's Healthcare shares insights into Trinity Health 'taking a stand' against UnitedHealthcare, and 2 big healthcare mergers moving forward. #podcast #healthcarenews #mergersandaquisitions https://t.co/jv6c6tAajH
.@RonWyden is asking for FTC and SEC investigations of cybersecurity failures at UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of Change Healthcare, which suffered a massive ransomware attack. Notably, he urges the agencies not to scapegoat the unqualified CISO. https://t.co/InQfgvyvyV
UnitedHealth’s ‘negligent’ cybersecurity needs FTC, SEC scrutiny, Sen. Wyden says https://t.co/Y8iZikMSmC
A Democratic senator wants UnitedHealth executives held accountable for 'substantial' harm to consumers, investors and the health-care industry https://t.co/yR6OxBbvmc
Here’s the first in a three-part Heard on the Street series on concentration in American healthcare https://t.co/3u1u7eFpwF
Senators Bernie Sanders and Ron Wyden are scrutinizing a data analytic firm over concerns that the services it provides to insurance companies leave patients with "sky-high medical bills." https://t.co/1o1EB45nu7
Health care middlemen have no shortage of schemes to squeeze profits out of patients. @SenSanders and I are demanding answers from MultiPlan for its practices that are landing families with surprise medical bills. Patients deserve full transparency. https://t.co/ffjEf3puOO
Listen Here: https://t.co/Q0ai2F9yEP Tune in to the latest episode of the Becker's Healthcare Podcast, recorded live at our 14th Annual Meeting, where we delve into an insightful discussion with Paul Butler, CIO at Regional West Health Services.
Listen Here: https://t.co/DWGdbmtwX5 Tune in to the latest episode of the Becker's Healthcare Podcast, recorded live at our 14th Annual Meeting, where we delve into an insightful discussion with Jill Duplechan, Providence Clinical Network, Chief Executive, OCHD.
The private equity-ization of healthcare, dentistry, and veterinarian services is creating uniquely terrible and untrustworthy experiences with incentives that are diametrically opposed to high-quality care. It is not a durable practice and will face a day of reckoning.
Listen Here: https://t.co/po6kGDl3FR In this episode, Laura (Miller) Dyrda, Vice President and Editor in Chief at Becker's Healthcare shares an update on the Ascension cyber attack & insights into big tech partnerships with health systems. #podcast #healthcarenews #cybersecurity https://t.co/BvM0N88AyN
Wyden pushes for CMS to crack down on broker misbehavior https://t.co/R4zkfOWkEy