Strategic Planning
The Mount Sinai Health System in New York has formed a research affiliation with Stony Brook Medicine, a state-run health system and medical school on New York's Long Island, and will collaborate on research, academic programs, and clinical care initiatives.
Hillary Clinton urged Congress to return to Washington and approve Zika funding for treatment, research and testing.
Aetna has sent a letter to over 900 physicians, telling them they fall within the top 1 percent of opioid prescribers.
Memorial Healthcare System, has joined the Caris Centers of Excellence for Precision Medicine Network, a partnership aimed at advancing tumor profiling and enhancing access to precision medicine, Caris announced Monday.
Even for states that have managed to institute some kind of method for consumers to compare prices for healthcare services, patients have few options for finding current pricing on common procedures. That's what a study from the nonprofit advocacy group Public Citizen shows.
Community Health Systems is set to unload two more hospitals than originally planned, bringing the total number to 12, according to a transcript of a second-quarter earnings call.
Centene's Medicare Advantage network could not handle the type of Medicare Advantage business required in a potential Humana divestiture, Centene Chairman and CEO Michael F. Neidorff said during an earnings call this week.
As a new report showed the vast majority of U.S. states failing when it comes to healthcare price transparency, one expert has said that for states to get on board they must first take a hard look at the websites they are creating to communicate costs.
The federal government released its first overall hospital quality rating on Wednesday, slapping average or below average scores on many of the nation's best-known hospitals while awarding top scores to many unheralded ones.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Wednesday released its star ratings for individual providers on its Hospital Compare website.