To help combat the recent resurgence of black lung disease in U.S. coal miners, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Virginia, recently introduced bipartisan legislation to increase participation in federal programs that treat or detect the disease through lung cancer screening, including lung CT scans.

Health insurance and services provider Humana has teamed up with the University of Chicago Medicine in a value-based agreement to offer coordinated, patient-centered care to Humana’s Medicare Advantage (MA) members.

When the American College of Radiology (ACR) published the Lung CT Screening Reporting and Data System (Lung-RADS) in 2014, one of its goals was producing a lower false-positive rate than the 23.3 percent reported by the National Cancer Institute’s National Lung Screening Trial (NLST).

Feeling the pressure from the ever-growing presence of Amazon in the healthcare space, CVS Health and Walgreens are emphasizing their abilities to connect with patients face to face, Forbes reported.

Shareholders of Cigna have approved a $67 billion acquisition of Express Scripts, a pharmacy benefit manager.

A $3 million partnership between the American College of Radiology’s Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute and the Georgia Institute of Technology will establish a data analytics lab that will examine how policy impacts medical imaging, the Gwinnett Daily Post reported.

CMS is cracking down on how it calculates budget neutrality in Medicaid demonstration projects, according to an update from the agency.

With roughly a third of all Medicare beneficiaries, or 20 million people, enrolled in a Medicare Advantage (MA) plan, new entrants into the healthcare field are eyeing this hefty population. And retail giant Walmart is no exception, according to Forbes.