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Versant Health Adds Vision Plans To Employee Navigator Platform

October 13, 2020

“We’re excited to be joining the Employee Navigator marketplace,” said Kirk Rothrock, Chief Executive Officer of Versant Health. “The relationship makes it simpler for brokers to enroll clients in our vision plans and creates a modern, unified enrollment process for employees.”

The integration currently supports new plan enrollments, including initial enrollments, new hires, changes and updates to workplace benefit offerings and Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) enrollments.

For more information, visit Employee Navigator and view Versant Health’s Davis Vision and Superior Vision partner pages.

About Versant Health
Versant Health is one of the nation’s leading managed vision care companies serving nearly 34 million members nationwide. Through our Davis Vision plans and Superior Vision plans, we help members enjoy the wonders of sight through healthy eyes and vision.

Minnesota Community Care Adds Two Directors to Advance Its Commitment to Disrupting Health Inequities in Communities It Serves

October 12, 2020

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Minnesota Community Care, the state’s largest federally qualified health center, announced the appointment of two new directors to its senior leadership team, each with deep experience working and advocating for the health and well-being of communities disproportionately impacted by social, structural, and political determinants of health.

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Cindy Nelson Kaigama joins Minnesota Community Care as Director of Innovation and Learning (Photo: Business Wire)

“Our leadership team is stronger for the addition of these key leaders,” says Reuben Moore, CEO of Minnesota Community Care. “Cindy Kaigama and Rubén Vázquez each bring critical experience and expertise to our work of strengthening the well-being of our communities through health care for all.”

Cindy Nelson Kaigama will serve as Director of Innovation and Learning, and Rubén Vázquez Ruiz as Director of Equity and Inclusion.

Kaigama is a champion of health and education equity with

Alignment Healthcare Adds MemorialCare Hospitals and Doctors to 2021 Medicare Advantage Provider Network

October 12, 2020

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Nationally ranked nonprofit health system and Medicare Advantage insurance provider sign agreement to expand access to care for Medicare-eligible beneficiaries in Southern California

MemorialCare, a leading nonprofit health system in Southern California with hundreds of primary care and specialty providers, four top hospitals and 200 locations, is joining Alignment Healthcare’s Medicare Advantage provider network starting Jan. 1, 2021, expanding its scope of coverage to 2 million Medicare-eligible residents in Los Angeles and Orange counties.¹

This means that Medicare beneficiaries who enroll in select plans from Alignment – named one of four 2020 Best Insurance Companies for Medicare Advantage in California by U.S. News & World Report – will have access to MemorialCare’s hospitals, health centers and urgent care locations and may seek “in-network” care from physicians associated with MemorialCare Medical Foundation. Medicare’s annual enrollment period for the 2021 plan year begins Oct. 15.

“As part of Alignment’s network, we

U.S. daily COVID-19 cases remain above 50,000, Montana adds 5,000 cases in October

October 11, 2020

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Oct. 11 (UPI) — New COVID-19 cases in the United States continued to rise at their highest rates since August amid surges in states like Montana.

The Johns Hopkins University global tracker reported 54,639 new cases and 618 deaths on Saturday, the fourth consecutive day with more than 50,000 deaths, a level of daily increase not seen since August.

Since the first reported case in the country on Jan. 21, the United States has reported world-leading totals of 7,745,951 cases and 214,641 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins data.

Johns Hopkins data showed that Montana has reported 5,046 COVID-19 cases from Sept. 30 through Oct. 10 after recording just 5,017 cases in the 150 days between its first reported case on March 13 and Aug. 10.

With 585 new cases Sunday, Montana has reported 18,702 total cases, up from 14,645 as of last Sunday, and a death toll of 210.

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Dallas County adds 460 confirmed coronavirus cases, 1 death; officials warn of rising hospitalizations

October 10, 2020

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Dallas County reported 460 more confirmed coronavirus cases Saturday, including 455 which the county considers new and five from previous months. One new COVID-19 death was also reported.

Labs either report coronavirus cases directly to the county health department or to the state health department, which then relays the information to individual counties. Of cases reported Saturday, Dallas County health officials said 167 came from the state’s reporting system, including one from March, four from September and 162 from October. The remaining 293 cases were reported directly to the county health department.

The latest victim was a woman in her 80s who lived in a long-term care facility in Richardson. She died at the facility and did not have any underlying health conditions.

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins urged people to continue following public health precautions including social distancing and masking wearing, citing an increase in the county’s hospitalizations.

NE Health District Adds Three COVID-19 Deaths, 79 New Cases

October 9, 2020

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This post was contributed by a community member. The views expressed here are the author’s own.

Department of Public Health Data (Lee Becker)

The Northeast Health District added three deaths attributed to COVID-19 with the release of state health department reports on Thursday and 79 new confirmed cases of the disease.

Two of the deaths–listed in the Department of Public Health Daily Status Report–were of a 77-year-old female in Greene County without a chronic condition and of an 81-year-old female in Walton County with a chronic condition.

The Department of Public Health also removed one death in Barrow County from its list of COVID-19 deaths. This was of a 55-year-old male with a chronic condition who was added to the list on Sept. 4.

The net of one death results in a seven-day-rolling average of added deaths of 1.4 in the Daily Status Report, down from 1.6 on Wednesday.

U.S. adds more than 50,000 COVID-19 cases for 3rd time in a week; deaths rise

October 8, 2020

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Oct. 8 (UPI) — For the third time in the past week, the United States has added more than 50,000 new COVID-19 cases — a level that was surpassed only three times during the entire month of September.

There were about 50,300 new cases nationally on Tuesday, according to updated data from Johns Hopkins University. There were also more than 900 new deaths, the most in a week.

There were just three days in September that added more than 50,000 cases — and a steady downward trajectory in new cases since mid-July now appears to have leveled off, and may even now be on the incline, Johns Hopkins data illustrates.

Since the start of the outbreak, there have been 7.56 million U.S. cases and 212,100 deaths, the data shows.

Thursday, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said an experimental antibody treatment could be widely available soon. It’s the same

LPL Adds Health Care, Benefits Programs for Advisors

October 8, 2020

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Andy Kalbaugh, head of National Sales and Consulting

LPL Financial has struck a deal with Paychex to offer its affiliated independent advisors access to health care and other employee-related services.

With Paychex joining LPL’s Vendor Affinity Program, advisors can outsource payroll and a variety of benefits services with no minimum employee requirements, the independent broker-dealer said Thursday. Plus, they can roll out these benefits to their staff during the 2021 enrollment period, it added.

Advisors coming on board LPL’s Strategic Wealth Services platform, which was launched two months ago to support wirehouse and other employee advisors as they become independent business owners, also can tap into these human resources and benefits management services.

“Our advisors have told us they need a cost-effective healthcare solution, and they want to reduce the risk and administrative burdens of healthcare, payroll and HR. We have listened,” said Andy Kalbaugh, head of National Sales and

NE Health District Adds Four COVID-19 Deaths, 106 Cases

October 8, 2020

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This post was contributed by a community member. The views expressed here are the author’s own.

Department of Public Health, University of Georgia Data (Lee Becker)

The Northeast Health District added four deaths attributed to COVID-19 and 106 new confirmed cases of the disease with the release of the Daily Status Report on Wednesday, and the seven-day rolling average of both deaths and cases increased.

The deaths were of a 67-year-old male in Jackson County without a known chronic condition, a 76-year-old male in Madison County with a chronic condition, a 55-year-old female with a chronic condition in Walton County, and an 82-year-old male without a chronic condition in Walton County.

The seven-day rolling average increased from 1.1 on Tuesday to 1.6 on Wednesday.

The 106 cases were spread throughout the 10-county district, with Oconee County adding nine cases and Clarke County adding 31. Each of the other counties

Michigan Adds Over 1,400 New Coronavirus Cases, Deaths Top 6,800

October 5, 2020

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MICHIGAN — Michigan added more than 1,400 new cases of the coronavirus on Monday, according to the most recent data provided by state health officials.

The state reported 1,407 new cases of the virus have been confirmed in Michigan, bringing the state’s total of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 129,923. Thirteen more deaths also were reported in Michigan Monday, bringing the coronavirus death toll in the state to 6,816.

On Saturday, officials in Michigan said that 99,521 Michiganders had recovered from the coronavirus.

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According to the World Health Organization, Michigan is 17th in the U.S. in reported coronavirus cases. Michigan is 10th in the nation in COVID-19 deaths.

More than 7.6 million cases of the coronavirus have been reported in the U.S., according to the