Healthcare plans

During Hunger Action Month, firms in the payments and fintech space should consider the many ways they can leverage their products to improve Americans' access to healthy foods.

Like other businesses, hospitals have been forced to make instant emergency changes because of the coronavirus. But many hospitals are concurrently getting a rush of demand for service with an unclear revenue stream.

Healthy Blue of Louisiana plans to provide its members with access to medical and behavioral healthcare via telehealth.

The Department of Health and Human Services has eliminated the need for health plans to use a standard unique health plan identifier, effective December 27.

Making progress on automating the prior authorization process is looming as one of the top healthcare information technology policy challenges in the next year.

The Tennessee bank was able to give employees more flexibility and cut its costs in half for its biometric screenings initiative.

The health care industry yearns for a digital antidote to paper payments, a challenge that awaits an executive who has spent years bringing businesses into the digital light.

The companies announced Dr. Atul Gawande, a professor at Harvard and the author of several books on health care, will lead the new health venture starting July 9. But other questions remain unanswered.

Total System Services is implementing software at Walmart and Sam's Club locations nationwide to link loyalty rewards to health care payments, while also recognizing qualified purchases from a consumer's health plan.

Credit unions are the third-biggest contributor to Children's Miracle Network Hospitals, having donated more than $170 million over the last 22 years.