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In other news:
About health insurance/insurers
Humana opens first Walmart clinic: The first grand opening of a CenterWell Senior Primary Care clinic located next to a Walmart will take place March 26 in Gladstone, Missouri.
The new clinic officially opened and began accepting new patients in late 2024, according to a March 20 news release. In July 2024, Humana said it would lease 23 former Walmart Health sites from the retail giant for CenterWell clinics. Walmart shuttered its health centers in 2024.
Comment: I wonder why Humana thinks it will succeed when other healthcare entities have failed miserably when they entered into this sector.
Low Marketplace Premiums Often Reflect High Deductibles Not news except the study quantifies these differences: Silver-plan deductibles typically exceed $5,000, while bronze plans approach $7,500 — representing up to 21 percent of annual income for those at 250 percent of poverty. Out-of-pocket maximums are generally above $9,000 at both metal tiers. While higher-premium options offer lower deductibles, they often include substantial prescription drug deductibles.
About healthcare IT
The Healthcare Email Security Report: Key insights from 180 email-related healthcare breaches A great overview of this important topic. For example: According to IBM, the true average cost of a data breach in healthcare is $9.8 million.
About healthcare personnel
Why we’re getting the expensive problem of employee burnout — and how to fix it — all wrong: We hear a lot about worker burnout, but a new study from the American Journal of Preventative Medicine puts an eyebrow-raising price tag on it. It found that a worn-out employee can cost an organization $21,000 per year in lost productivity — meaning that for the average 1,000-person company, workforce disengagement and burnout could ring up to $5 million a year.