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South Carolina might be an unlikely place from which to run a small healthcare empire, but the state's oldest health insurance company is doing just that.

Doctor allegedly prescribed the dangerous drug to thousands of elderly and indigent mentally ill patients in at least 30 area nursing homes and other facilities.

Corporate wellness skeptics are out early this year, arguing that the data is squarely on their side and that simpler, laissez faire approaches could be more effective.

Productivity grew 0.78 percent for heart attacks, 0.62 percent for heart failure, and 1.90 percent for pneumonia.

Salinas, California topped spending for all three procedures: $60,375 for a coronary stent placement; $57,990 for a total hip replacement; and $25,924 for a laparoscopic appendectomy.

HIMSS task force leader says healthcare providers should use the time ahead of the Oct. 1 deadline wisely … or else.

The state needs to create and fill 13,568 residency positions to fully resolve the physician shortage by 2025.

Once again, insurance practices on cost-sharing and reimbursement for out-of-network providers and PPOs are ending up in dispute, with backlash from providers and customers.

An estimated $22 billion in healthcare spending would be lost due to those losing coverage under the Affordable Care Act, according to a new report by the Urban Institute of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

CEO Stephen Klasko pitches telehealth, clinic focus as he manages the merger between the top academic medical center and the suburban Abington Health hospital system.