Alabama news and information

A dozen providers in a low-income part of the country will receive $5.4 million in federal funding to address a number of chronic conditions that affect residents there at a more frequent rate compared with the rest of the country.
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Alabama's new law setting stricter requirements for abortion doctors won't be enforced this year.
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Alabama should have no counties left out of a federally operated health insurance exchange because three companies have proposed insurance plans and two of the companies want to cover the entire state.
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Once again, a critic who says he was reprimanded for confidentially raising concerns about doctors' pay has turned into a whistle-blower for the federal government.
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Some states that will be running their health insurance exchanges with help from the federal government are not receiving necessary information in a timely fashion, which may inhibit their ability to effectively prepare for the launch of their marketplaces, according to a study released Friday from...
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A leading proponent of Medicare reform on Capitol Hill says Congress should change the accountable care program to make sure ACOs are improving care for the sickest patients.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn.—Mountain States Health Alliance, which operates 12 hospitals in northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia, will join Vanderbilt University Medical Center's network of affiliated hospitals. As part of the affiliation, the two organizations will collaborate on...
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The Alabama Legislature passed a sweeping revision to Medicaid that replaces the way the program delivers and pays for care with regional managed care operators.
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Regarding the story “Highmark completes West Penn deal, announces new system,” hurrah for this action. Competition is healthy in healthcare, and Pittsburgh needs another viable hospital-care system. UPMC has...
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Dr. Nancy Dunlap, a professor of medicine and business at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, has been named as the first physician-in-residence at the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices' Health Division in Washington.
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