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Medicaid paid $7.4 million to 94 providers for services performed by providers that had been barred for reasons such as fraud, waste or quality.

The overwhelming majority of patients were not homebound and did not need home health services, according to authorities.

Tufts Health Plan is working with Iora to open two new Iora Primary Care practices, in Medford and Hyde Park, exclusively for customers on Tufts' Medicare Preferred and Senior Care Options plans, the latter a dual eligibles plan.

Aviation giant Boeing has added Roper St. Francis Health Alliance in Charleston, South Carolina and Mercy in St. Louis to its health plan, according to a Boeing spokesman, as the company continues to grow its in-house benefits network.

Unless hospitals and other health care facilities begin cooperatively fighting the country's most aggressive bacterial-resistant germs, infection rates could increase as much as 10 percent over the next five years, hitting about 340,000 people annually, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report released this week.

"Are you pregnant?" It's a topic employers have avoided since the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978. But advocates fear these long-standing protections could be undermined by some workplace wellness programs.

BlueMountain's operation and potential ownership of Daughters of Charity guarantees that the hospitals will stay open for a minimum five years.

With giant commercial health insurers announcing plans to merge, and experts predicting more consolidation, healthcare providers will be weighing their options when it comes to price negotiations.

The business listing site has teamed up with ProPublica to integrate data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services onto the business pages of more than 25,000 healthcare facilities in the United States.

Another insurer is embracing the idea of paying for direct primary care, sponsoring new clinics and a new kind of medical practice.