Quality and Safety
In January, Elliott Management bought 8.3 percent shares in The Advisory Board for $130 million.
Program eConsult, allows primary care docs to get specialists' advice for patients, expedite referrals for those who need in-person appointments.
The bill would give the states the ability to pull Medicaid enrollees from the program by counting their lottery winnings as income.
Hospitals showed improvement in key metrics like 30-day readmission rates and risk-adjusted mortality.
Dev GnanaDev was part of panel that voted to reinstate a doctor's license after sexual misconduct finding, then later sought donation from doctor's relatives.
Study should ease concerns that the health law will exacerbate the shortage of primary care providers, study author says.
Researchers estimated that in 2015 there were 263,600 cases of skin cancer that could be attributed to indoor tanning.
Investigational drug 'severely distorted' the fungus and impaired its growth, researchers say.
Dozens of hospitals, many in the Charlotte area, have banned visitors 12 years old and under.
Patients treated in these hospitals have on average, a 27.1 percent lower risk of dying than if they were treated in hospitals that did not receive the award, Healthgrades says.