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Three drug companies are suing to block the CMS rule forcing them to disclose their prices in consumer ads.

Staffing companies that serve hospitals are particularly vulnerable as emergency department volumes decline and health systems develop predictive tools to better measure demand.

A judge wrote that a clause in the 2014 consent decree involving UPMC and Highmark can't be used to get around the deal's explicit end date.

Cúram Software, a company IBM Corp. acquired in 2011, allegedly misrepresented product capabilities during a contract award process for the development of Maryland's health insurance exchange website.

A data breach at a healthcare clearinghouse based in Puerto Rico exposed data on nearly 1.6 million of its customers' patients.

A bill requiring public and private insurance companies to cover abortion is now law in Maine with Democratic Gov. Janet Mills' signature Thursday.

Jamestown Regional Medical Center closed its doors one day after the CMS cut off its Medicare billing privileges and one year after it was purchased by a Florida lab test company.

A statewide coalition has launched a campaign to put the question to voters if Medicaid coverage should be expanded to thousands of uninsured Oklahomans.

Allscripts' latest acquisition is part of an effort to build up Veradigm, the company's rebranded payer and life sciences business.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed an HHS appropriations bill with a swath of amendments that include overturning a ban on funding for a national patient identifier.

ProMedica's operating loss more than tripled in the first quarter of 2019 year-over-year, mostly because of medical expenses in its health plan, Paramount.

The GAO found the U.S. Defense Department fails to appropriately track and coordinate referrals to private specialists for its managed care beneficiaries.

Washington is focusing on hepatitis C drug spending because the number of cases has risen sharply in recent years.

Kaiser disputed Queen's alleged assertion that it would bill Kaiser members who receive emergency care at the Hawaiian health system if Kaiser does not pay all the billed charges.

The road to a healthier life begins by ending the slow death caused by chronic economic insecurity.

One of the Senate options to ban surprise medical bills has drawn especial ire from certain physician and hospital groups—and equally strong support from employer groups.

RWJBarnabas Health offers a program for nurses to work in the operating room, skills in high demand as the current workforce of OR nurses retires and the population ages. 

Revenue growth overtook cost control as executives' top priority, according to an Advisory Board Co. survey of 90 C-level executives.

House Energy and Commerce health subcommittee members split over whether they should give physicians and hospitals a chance to arbitrate balance billing disputes.

The CMS is seeking industry input on how it can best support private-sector efforts to correctly match patients to their data.

The hospital chain aims to become more efficient, partly by reducing headcount. The company won't say whether it plans to retain both its CEOs.

Targeting physician prescribing patterns offers a promising opportunity to stem the tide on opioid addiction and overdose deaths, and health information technology can be a powerful tool to achieve this goal.

The American Medical Association reaffirmed its opposition to Medicare for All, narrowly maintaining the position after young members called for changing its stance.

Congressional committees want to put limits on doctor pay for out-of-network care as they look to crack down on surprise medical billing practices. Provider groups want their prices to stay fluid.

The fiery rhetoric from the House Ways and Means Committee pitted Democrats seeking an expanded public payer role against Republicans who denounced the moves as one-size-fits-all socialized medicine.

National Cancer Survivors Day, which is recognized in early June, is meant to “demonstrate that life after a cancer diagnosis can be a reality.”