Lack of member utilization has left Medicaid managed-care organizations facing additional high risk-corridor expenses from states. That's boosting efforts to treat social determinants to improve their medical loss ratios.

Cigna announced on Friday it will acquire telehealth provider MDLive, as more insurers launch plans that require members to schedule virtual visits before seeing their physician in-person.

Universal Health Services lost $67 million from a September cyberattack that caused the company to take its U.S. IT networks offline.

The Pittsburgh, Pa.-based academic health system reported an $836 million operating income in 2020.

The University of Pennsylvania Health System said that its Chester County Hospital ran a "lottery system" for family members of employees who otherwise met the state's eligibility requirements.

As COVID deaths mount daily, critics say the Food and Drug Administration is moving too slowly. Meanwhile, the novel coronavirus is evolving, with new variants stalking populations the world over.

In California, which became the epicenter of the national coronavirus surge following Thanksgiving, 40% of all healthcare worker deaths came after the vaccine was being distributed to medical staff members.

The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in the U.S. has dropped by 80,000 in six weeks, and 17% of the nation's adult population has gotten at least one dose of a vaccine, providing some relief to front-line workers.

With multiple signatories on each complaint, there were 97,715 nurse signatures total, the data showed. NYSNA receives a copy when such "protests of assignment" are filed, and the numbers are tracked and reported annually, a spokesman said.

New York's health commissioner has said that if the state didn't hadn't encouraged nursing homes to find space for patients being discharged from hospitals, it could have led to catastrophic conditions in emergency departments then overwhelmed with patients.

Special-purpose acquisition companies, once considered the province of scam artists and shady dealers, are the latest trend to hit public markets and the scientific world as companies seek to go public more quickly and avoid some of the disadvantages of a traditional initial public offering of stock.

The number of inpatient stays billed at the highest severity codes increased nearly 20% over a six-year period while length of stay decreased.

RemoteICU wants to compel Medicare to pay for telehealth services provided by overseas physicians amidst an intensivist shortage and the pandemic.

Under the agreement, Nashville-based HCA Healthcare will purchase 80% of Brookdale Health Care Services for $400 million.

The company surpassed $1 billion in revenue for 2020, nearly doubling its full-year revenue year-over-year.

In all, more than 2,400 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine in Shelby County, Tenn., went to waste over the past month while local officials sat on tens of thousands of shots that state officials thought had already gone into arms.

After freezing Trump-era regulations, President Joe Biden is starting to devise his own healthcare agenda. What regulations will take priority in the early days?

Across the country, people who use special software to make the web accessible have been unable to sign up for the vaccines or obtain vital information about COVID-19 because many government websites lack required accessibility features.

The Massachusetts-based diagnostics company has a $1.4-billion COVID-19 testing contract with the state.

About 180 certified registered nurse anesthetists, who were formerly employed at Beaumont's Royal Oak, Troy and Grosse Pointe hospitals, signed union petition cards on Jan. 4 indicating they support the idea of forming their own local union.

Regional health systems are still dealing with the fallout from delaying non-urgent procedures, depressed volumes, higher expenses as well as the physical and mental health toll of COVID-19 on their staff.

Aetna Better Health of Oklahoma has filed a protest against the state's healthcare agency, calling the process for awarding contracts in the $2.1 billion Medicaid managed-care system "fatally flawed."

While nonresidential construction is expected to continue to lag through much of 2021, healthcare is projected to rebound quicker than most sectors.

Geisinger Health's decision to give special access to employees' relatives earned a rebuke this week from the Pennsylvania Department of Health, which said the healthcare giant shouldn't have held vaccine clinics for eligible family members of employees.

The 2021 Top 25 Women Leaders in Healthcare have a mission to combat the long-standing imbalance of gender equity at the top rungs of leadership, serve as mentors and create workplaces that embrace diversity and inclusion. And last year, they did this all while guiding their organizations through a global pandemic.

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After a controversial start, Ascension is continuing its partnership with Google and expanding its pilot of an EHR search tool from the tech giant.