Susan Morse
From 2010 to 2014, there's been 2.1 million fewer hospital-acquired conditions; 87,000 fewer hospital-acquired condition related deaths; and $19.8 billion in costs have been averted, according to CMS Deputy Director Patrick Conway.
The state's only health insurance co-op will shut down operations on December 31, after failing to find additional financing, Meritus officials announced November 25.
The former CFO of a Long Beach hospital in California, two orthopedic surgeons and two others have been charged in relation to a $600 million fraudulent billings scheme involving illegal referrals of thousands of patients for spinal surgeries.
Halfway through the open enrollment period, another half million consumers signed up in the federal marketplace during the week of November 15-21, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Pharmaceutical company Novartis will pay $370 million to settle claims that it gave kickbacks to specialty pharmacies in exchange for recommending two of its drugs, the U.S. Justice Department Southern District of New York announced this week.
Turing Pharmaceuticals will slash the price hospitals pay for Daraprim by 50 percent following backlash over owner Martin Shkreli's decision to hike the price of the AIDS drug by 5,000 percent, the company said Tuesday.
CMS is requesting comment on whether health plans should designate network strength, such as indicating whether a plan has a broad number of doctors or health facilities in the network or not.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is asking healthcare providers for information to aid in the design of a new survey of patient experience in long-term care hospitals.
Acquisition represents a strategic fit for Bard as it enhances its position in the home care market.
Vizient Inc., which becomes official on Jan. 1, 2016, will provide services to close to 30 percent of U.S. hospitals, including nearly all academic medical centers and health systems