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Patient advocates have argued that follow-up colonoscopies should be provided without cost sharing by patients; awareness can help patients prepare for facility fees.

"Check & Inject NY" Pilot Demonstration Program touts Syringe Epinephrine Kit as "successful alternative".

To be successful in the Medicare Shared Savings Program, a provider has to participate in value-based care across the health system. That's according to the CMO of one that earned the third largest total savings in its third year in the program.

Despite dip in statewide margin, 80 percent of the state's 65 hospitals are ending the year with a net profit, a new report shows.

By itself, the higher-value care intervention doesn't live up to its cost reduction potential, due mostly to inadequate funding, researchers say.

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

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced a number of payment and policy changes last week, addressing Medicare inpatient rehabilitation facilities, hospice benefit and skilled nursing facilities.

UnitedHealth Group revenues grew 28 percent, or $10.2 billion year-over-year to $46.5 billion, but that was countered by greater losses in the exchange market than projected, according to a second quarter earnings report released Tuesday.

Government spending on "compounded" drugs that are handmade by retail pharmacists has skyrocketed, drawing the attention of federal investigators who are raising fraud and overbilling concerns.

Americans in their 80s and 90s are not the ones amassing the largest medical bills to hold off death, according to a new analysis that challenges a widely held belief about the costs of end-of-life care.