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Judge recuses himself from health insurance cancer-denial case because he considers the company “immoral” and “barbaric”

US District Judge Robert N Scola recused himself from a class action suit against Unitedhealthcare that alleges that Unitedhealthcare denied them promising proton beam cancer treatments by falsely claiming that they were "experimental."

In his recusal, Scola revealed that he was a prostate cancer survivor who was cornered into accepting surgical prostate removal because his own ...

Innovaccer nabs $11 million from Microsoft’s VC arm to give doctors a better window into patient heatlh

Cracking the silos of digital health records promises to bring better care to patients by better informing doctors, according to Abhinav Shashank, the chief executive officer of San Francisco-based startup Innovaccer . Shashank’s company is just wrapping up a $35 million round of financing with a new $11 million commitment from Microsoft’s investment arm M12 ...

Trump Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Varma tweets obscene Halloween joke

It's not funny. Medicare For All is the idea of you and everyone you love being protected from going bankrupt if you get really sick.

That is a thing that happens to Americans. It ruins lives and families. Sometimes it kills people, even when the disease does not.

It is obscene for the Administrator of Medicare ...

HACKED: U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS); 75K individuals affected

The United States Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) said Friday it was responding to a data breach that exposed the files of about 75,000 people.

Reuters:

The agency said it detected anomalous activity in the Federally Facilitated Exchange’s (FFE) Direct Enrollment pathway for agents and brokers.

The number of files accessed in the breach ...