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Overall U.S. healthcare prices in June 2011 mirrored last month's slow but steady increase, rising 0.1 percent, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Making good on its stated intention to diversify its product mix and revenue streams, Aetna announced today it will acquire account-based health plan administrator PayFlex Holdings for $202 million.
Late last week, Transcept Pharmaceuticals announced that it will reduce its staff by 45 percent after it received notice from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejecting the re-application for its insomnia medication, Intermezzo.
Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that its Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) and the Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office are developing a demonstration project to address the costly problem of frequent preventable inpatient hospitalizations of nursing facility patients.
Healthcare Finance News readers weighed in on what they think is the biggest challenge in forming accountable care organizations (ACOs).
Almost 300 school-based health center programs have been awarded a total of $95 million, announced HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Education Secretary Arne Duncan last week.
The efforts of Highmark, Pennsylvania's largest health insurer, to acquire the struggling hospital operation West Penn Allegheny Hospital System has brought into sharp focus the acrimonious relationship between the insurer and the region's dominant hospital operator, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC).
While employment growth nationally was disappointing in June, hiring in the U.S. healthcare sector continued to trend upward. The industry added 13,500 positions in June.
Findings from a Harvard University study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine examining one-year results for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts' global payment initiative shows the program is lowering medical spending while improving quality of care.
Advances in gene therapy and stem cell research are leading to double-digit annual sales growth in the orthopedic biomaterials market, according to the healthcare market research firm Kalorama Information.