Population Health
Open enrollment for week 11 ended with close to 400,000 consumers signing up for healthcare coverage, a number four times greater than the week before, according to figures from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The New York Genome Center, a nonprofit focusing on biomedical research and clinical care, could be $100 million richer thanks to a challenge grant from the Simons Foundation and The Carson Family Charitable Trust.
When patients need an air ambulance, the first priority is getting them the care they need as fast as possible. So, patients don't always know who is going to pick them up or if the ambulance is an in-network provider.
Hospitals are acting on the notion that keeping violent injury from recurring will ultimately reduce their expenses and improve people's long-term health.
431 hospitals have been recognized by the Women's Choice Award company as the Best In Obstetrics for 2016, the company announced Tuesday in a statement.
Minnesota Community Healthcare Network, made up of an alliance between Canvas Health, Guild Incorporated, Mental Health Resource, RESOURCE, INC. and Touchstone Mental Health, announced today it has joined with RelayHealth to establish interoperability amongst its campuses.
As the third open enrollment period winds down on the health insurance marketplaces, one thing hasn't changed much since the online exchanges opened: It's still often hard to find out whether a plan covers abortion services.
WellCare is a provider of managed care services for government-sponsored healthcare programs; CVS health is the nation's second-largest PBM company, and will administer pharmacy benefits and process claims for about 3.8 million WellCare members who participate in the company's nationwide Medicare, Medicaid and Prescription Drug Plan programs.
A nonprofit specializing in financial assistance for underinsured Americans has opened a new fund to provide help to Medicare patients suffering from renal cell carcinoma. It is the second fund launched this month by the HealthWell Foundation, an independent organization which provides a financial safety net for more than 200,000 underinsured patients by facilitating access to otherwise unaffordable medical treatments.
The neurostimulation devices market was valued at more than $5 billion globally in 2014, and that number is only expected to grow, with annual increases of 12.7 percent forecasted from now until 2020, said New York City-based P&S Market Research in findings released Monday.