A local nonprofit caught in the middle of Steward Health Care’s financial crisis is celebrating the unexpected arrival of essential grant funding they were stiffed out of by a Steward-owned hospital.

Earlier this month, a GBH investigation found that St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center — one of nine Steward facilities in Massachusetts — had signed a written agreement to pay for a popular food voucher program run by the Allston Brighton Health Collaborative at the Brighton Farmers Market. The hospital promised $150,000 over three years beginning in 2022. But when it came time to pay up, a check never arrived, and

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, and Homeopathy) medicines as an alternative or as complementary healthcare options. With this increasing popularity, many individuals have begun to explore the possibility of using Ayush treatments and medicines for various health concerns. However, one common question is whether health insurance policies cover these treatments and how reimbursement works.

This article will delve into Ayush medicines and insurance reimbursement nuances to provide a comprehensive understanding.

Inclusion in health insurance policies: “In recent years, many health insurance providers have started including coverage for Ayush

Qhe cyberattack on Change Healthcare has fractured the country’s health care payment infrastructure. But it also exposed how complicated and vital these electronic pipes are.

Using terms like “clearinghouse” and “electronic data interchange” are quick ways to lose an audience. But Ben Handel, a health economist at the University of California, Berkeley, for the past 13 years, has become intimately familiar with that language. When the Department of Justice sued to block UnitedHealth’s acquisition of Change Healthcare in 2022 — a case the agency ultimately lost — Handel was the government’s witness to explain what could happen to the

Small private practices and health-care providers are facing mounting financial pressures as crucial reimbursement systems remain down for the ninth day, following the cyberattack on Change Healthcare.

Change Healthcare offers tools for payment and revenue cycle management that help facilitate transactions between providers and most major insurance companies. Its parent company UnitedHealth Group discovered that a cyber threat actor breached part of the unit’s information technology network on Feb. 21, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

As a result, the company isolated and disconnected the impacted systems “immediately upon detection” of the threat, the filing

A healthy lifestyle that involves moderate alcohol consumption, a nutritious diet, regular physical activity, restorative sleep, and frequent social connections while avoiding smoking and too much sedentary behavior reduces the risk of depression, new research has found.

In research published today in Nature Mental Healthan international team of researchers, including from the University of Cambridge and Fudan University, looked at a combination of factors, including lifestyle factors, genetics, brain structure, and our immune and metabolic systems to identify the underlying mechanisms that might explain this link.

Study: The brain structure, immunometabolic and genetic mechanisms underlying the association between lifestyle