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Payers Push to Slow Disease Progression
Payers like Humana and Oscar Health, along with Aetna, represented by its parent company CVS Health, provided updates on how their evolving strategies are reducing health care costs and driving health behaviors. Humana CEO Bruce Broussard said the flurry of payer mergers and acquisitions in the payer field largely have been fueled by a desire to slow disease progression. Humana’s investments in primary care and physician groups illustrate its commitment in this area.
Providers Cut Costs, Better Engage Patients
Leaders from health care delivery systems, insurers, the pharmaceuticals industry and technology companies converged on San Francisco last week for the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference and got a close-up look at just how quickly the field is transforming. News came quickly on several fronts, including company acquisitions, the ongoing push among many payers into clinical services as they try to drive down care delivery costs and more.