Preventive Services news and information

Scottsdale (Ariz.) Healthcare and John C. Lincoln Health Network in Phoenix are forming an umbrella company to operate their five not-for-profit hospitals in order to adjust more nimbly to new payment and delivery models.
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The lung-cancer screening that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is now recommending could add at least $3 billion annually in new costs to the already burdened U.S. healthcare system. On the other hand, the new recommendation, still in draft form, could save 20,000 lives a year.
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The decision last week by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommending annual lung cancer screenings for heavy smokers using low-dose computed tomography scans has reignited the controversy among physicians about the trade-off between benefits and risks for a number of cancer-screening...
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Providers who have been using low-dose CT scans to screen patients at high risk for lung cancer are a step closer to receiving Medicare and private insurance reimbursement for their services.
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Khlood Salman became a strong advocate for better healthcare for Muslims in the U.S. after finding out shortly after graduating from nursing school that three of her young Muslim friends had breast cancer.
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Veteran investigative journalist Kurt Eichenwald has an important and scathing commentary in the new issue of Vanity Fair on the issue of how new state restrictions in Texas and other states on centers providing abortion and other women's health services are likely to affect diagnosis and treatment...
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A growing number of experts fear the rising popularity of high-deductible insurance plans could backfire and undermine the accountable care movement.
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Visits to the doctor and pharmacy dropped among workers whose employer switched their health insurance to a high-deductible plan with a health savings account, a newly released Health Affairs study found.
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Recent findings from the Oregon Health Study have resulted in headlines intended as a warning for next January's planned expansion of the Medicaid program (as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act): “Bad news for Obamacare: A...
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Actress Angelina Jolie has focused public attention on breast cancer by announcing that because she carries a cancer-causing mutation, she has had a double mastectomy.
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