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CMS gives MA plans flexibility in benefit design for enrollees with certain chronic conditions.

U.S. District Court Judge John Bates said the insurer failed to provide evidence of any harm that would be done by having a later trial.

United States Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy is touring the nation to pressure drug prescribers to take an active role in the fight to end the opioid epidemic engulfing the country.

Aetna has aligned with Duke Health and WakeMed Health & Hospitals in North Carolina on an expanded accountable care collaboration that will be open to larger, self-funded employers.

Healthcare executives saw salaries decrease during the last year, even though pay for doctors and physician assistants, IT pros rose.

CRH Healthcare, an Atlanta, Georgia-based urgent care center operator, has acquired the assets of Patients First's seven centers, CRH announced.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has updated its five-star quality ratings for nursing homes that will likely alter the current ratings.

The cost to implement information technology needed to meet federal mandates for value-based care is taking a financial toll on physician-owned multispecialty practices, according to the Medical Group Management Association.

Aetna has sent a letter to over 900 physicians, telling them they fall within the top 1 percent of opioid prescribers.

For the first time, most employers consider specialty pharmacy as the highest driver of healthcare costs.