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Fifteen doctors are among the dozens of people being laid off as Rhode Island's largest hospital network tries to cut nearly $150 million in expenses in the next two years. The health system also plans to reduce the number of residents in its physician training program beginning in July 2014.
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For the first time, Rhode Island's insurance commissioner has directed health insurers to disclose what they pay for healthcare services. But that information won't necessarily be directly available to patients.
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The competition for workers with high-tech analytics skills has been explosive during the past five years, partly because of new digital billing and patient-monitoring requirements for hospitals, doctors and physician groups under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
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Differences over whether immigrants should be deported for failing to have health insurance or pay their healthcare bills have stalled a bipartisan group of House lawmakers, who blew past a self-imposed Thursday deadline as they pressed forward on a sweeping immigration overhaul.
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Intuitive Surgical convinced a Washington state jury that it wasn't negligent in its training of a doctor who performed a robot-assisted surgery on a patient who later died.
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President Barack Obama's healthcare overhaul made a big leap Thursday when California's insurance exchange announced the plans and the prices that will be offered to those buying individual coverage.
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An iPhone application that lets users check levels of blood, protein and other substances in their urine is the first target of U.S. regulators seeking boundaries in a burgeoning industry for medical diagnosis on-the-go.
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To the amazingly wide-ranging list of accomplishments attributed to 3D printing technology, we can now add one more: a custom-made tracheal splint that saved the life of an infant.
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California health officials have developed a tool to help providers decide when they need patient authorization to share treatment records as California builds an electronic highway for medical information.
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Some prominent health insurers, including UnitedHealth Group, are not participating in California's new state-run health insurance market.
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