Rebecca Pifer

1 week ago | pharmavoice.com | Rebecca Pifer

This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The sweeping HHS layoffs have been chaotic and stressful for employees of the massive health department. They may also be illegal, according to lawyers and federal employment experts.

1 week ago | healthcaredive.com | Rebecca Pifer

Listen to the article 6 min UnitedHealth underperformed earnings and revenue expectations in the first quarter and lowered its earnings guidance for the full year, two signs of waning performance that analysts said were uncharacteristic of the healthcare behemoth.

1 week ago | biopharmadive.com | Rebecca Pifer

The mass layoffs that swept the U.S. health department this month were chaotic and stressful for employees. They may also have been illegal, according to lawyers and federal employment experts. Healthcare Dive spoke to more than a dozen current and former employees at the Department of Health and Human Services, all of whom shared aspects of the reduction-in-force that don’t match how the process is typically done.

1 week ago | healthcaredive.com | Rebecca Pifer |Susanna Vogel

Listen to the article 2 min Cone Health has purchased the remaining ownership of HealthTeam Advantage from Novant Health, leaving Cone the sole owner of the Medicare Advantage payer. HealthTeam Advantage has 22,000 members across six MA plans in North Carolina. The ownership change shouldn't affect their coverage or provider networks, Brendan Hodges, HealthTeam Advantage's CEO, said in a statement. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

1 week ago | healthcaredive.com | Rebecca Pifer

Listen to the article 3 min The CMS has denied Humana's internal appeal to improve the insurer's Medicare Advantage bonus ratings, Humana disclosed in a filing on Tuesday in its ongoing litigation against the government for allegedly arbitrarily calculating the scores. The CMS' decision is subject to review by new CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz before it becomes final on April 28, according to the filing.