Susan Morse
Two days after a Senate committee released a report stating the manufacturer of 85 percent of endoscopes used in the United States knew the hard-to-clean reusable devices caused superbug infections, scope-maker Olympus issued a recall of the medical equipment.
In a contentious debate in Charleston, South Carolina Sunday night, the three challengers for the Democratic nomination tried to distinguish their views on healthcare and the effects and future of the Affordable Care Act.
In a move that appears to go against the corporate trend, GE Healthcare has announced it is moving its global headquarters from the United Kingdom to Chicago effective early 2016.
Louisiana has adopted Medicaid expansion, making it the 32nd state, including the District of Columbia, to take on the Affordable Care Act initiative.
Anthem has proposed a $52.5 billion takeover of Cigna; Aetna pitched a $38.5 billion merger with Humana. If approved, the combined companies and the nation's largest insurer, UnitedHealth Group, would become the big three.
President Barack Obama announced a new national effort to cure cancer, with Vice President Joe Biden leading the charge, during his final State of the Union address Tuesday night.
Fifty-five hospitals have filed a lawsuit against the Secretary of Health and Human Services over Medicare's 0.2 percent cut in payment for inpatient stays that went into effect January 1 under the two-midnight rule, according to lawyers at Foley & Lardner in Washington, D.C., who filed the lawsuit on Friday.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center was surprisingly not among the list of 21 health systems joining the Next Generation Accountable Care Organization model released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday announced the 21 health systems that are participating in the Next Generation Accountable Care Organization model, some having defected from the controversial Pioneer ACO program.
Doctors, providers and other stakeholders have until Monday to submit comment on new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines for prescribing opioids for chronic pain.