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Medtronic said it has acquired Cardiocom, a disease-management and patient-monitoring firm, in a move that the devicemaker hopes will turn rising concerns about health spending to its advantage.
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The online insurance exchange that Oregon established under the healthcare law will not allow residents to sign up for coverage on their own when enrollment begins nationwide on Oct. 1.
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Federal health officials have launched a probe into the use of antipsychotic drugs on children in the Medicaid system, amid concern that the medications are being prescribed too often to treat behavioral problems in the very young.
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The Kansas Health Information Network, which is in the process of connecting the electronic health record systems of thousands of providers across the state, hopes to launch a new statewide patient portal next month. The portal will be free for all Kansas patients.
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Jonathon Layden was once confident that if he were ever injured, he could count on his health insurance to help pay his medical bills. But after he was patched up following an auto accident in 2011, Research Medical Center didn't submit his bill to his Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance.
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With the Oct. 1 date for enrollment in the health insurance exchanges being created by Obamacare less than two months away, a war of numbers has been escalating. Health insurance will cost way less. Or it will cost way more. It depends who you ask.
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A Cincinnati spine doctor accused of performing unnecessary surgeries and billing healthcare programs for millions of dollars has been indicted on federal charges including healthcare fraud.
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Iowa legislators have declined for the moment to step into a dispute over whether state regulators should shut down a video-conferencing system used to dispense abortion pills statewide.
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Sandy McCoy, president of the Texas Nurse Practitioners, listened to Judge Clay Jenkins at the Enroll Dallas County Partnership Stakeholders Meeting. With an unveiling a little more than 50 days away, many of the key details about the new health insurance marketplace remain under wraps.
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Dr. Farid Fata, an Oakland County, Mich., hematologist-oncologist accused of running a $35-million Medicare fraud could be released from jail as soon as Friday.
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