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Insurers are picking up more of the cost of prescription pain drugs, according to a study linking that trend with the rise in opioid-related deaths.
Barred from restaurants, banned on airplanes and unwelcome in workplaces across America, smokers have become accustomed to hiding their habits. So it's no surprise many may now also be denying their habit when they buy health coverage from the federal health law's insurance exchanges.
Nursing home that either merged or were acquired by major chains between 1993 and 2010 had more health deficiency citations than independent ones, according to a study published Monday in Health Affairs, though researchers said facilities that sold to chains were already struggling with quality issues.
1,900 women across the state were automatically transferred from the exchange to Medi-Cal since October, even though they were supposed to have the option to stay with Covered California.
While not every hospital may be as analytically-advanced, many of the lessons learned at UMMC can be applicable even to smaller hospitals looking to make the most of their data projects.
Changing the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67 years old would actually increase the nation's total healthcare spend since that two-year gap would be covered by private insurers that charge more for services than the federal government, according to a new report in Health Affairs.
ACO Partner takes on upfront costs of services and technology for physician practices, other providers to transform to value-based payments.
According to a new study, shortages of many drugs that are essential in emergency care have increased in both number and duration in recent years even as shortages for drugs for non-acute or chronic care have eased somewhat.
Major for-profit hospital chain Universal Health Services on Tuesday announced plans to buy out a minority interest in six of its Las Vegas acute care hospitals currently held by a third party.
The study measures how many people were hospitalized between 2002 and 2012 because they were abusing heroin or prescription painkillers, and how many of them got serious infections related to their drug use. It also tracks what hospitals charged to treat those patients and how the hospitals were paid.