Healthcare systems often prefer cash-pay because it cuts the administrative burden of dealing with prior authorization, billing and other bureaucratic aspects of the insurance experience.

Long-term care associations are calling for the federal government to prioritize the vaccination of long-term care residents and staff after federal regulators suggested temporarily halting use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine over concerns about blood clots.

Dr. Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has joined Big Ass Fans, lending his scientific credibility to a company division that says its ion-generating technology kills the coronavirus.

Steward Health and Aya Healthcare are suing one another over allegations of price gouging for traveling healthcare workers and failing to pay contracts.

The FDA will not enforce a decades-old policy requiring mifepristone be dispensed in person, citing the risk of COVID-19 exposure for to patients and providers.

The reports appear similar to a rare, unusual type of clotting disorder that European authorities say is possibly linked to another COVID-19 vaccine not yet cleared in the U.S., from AstraZeneca.

Multiple states have requested similar 1115 waivers to combat high maternal mortality rates, especially among Black women.

On Monday, Michigan hospitals reported 3,918 COVID-positive patients occupying about 18% of hospital beds across the state, surpassing the fall peak of 3,884 on Dec. 1.

During my eight years as CEO of Boston Children's Hospital, the most profound lessons I learned came from those who care for children. I have been fortunate to witness their search for answers with one goal in mind: to advance and improve the health and well-being of children.

Dow component Johnson & Johnson fell 1.5% after U.S. regulators recommended a pause in using its single-dose COVID-19 vaccine to investigate reports of possibly dangerous blood clots. Moderna, which also makes a COVID-19 vaccine, rose 6.8%.

California re-opened enrollment for its state health insurance exchange, hoping more people will buy coverage now that the federal government is offering new assistance that could lower monthly premiums.

For decades, a deadly type of childhood cancer has eluded science's best tools. Now doctors have made progress with an unusual treatment: Dripping millions of copies of a virus directly into kids' brains to infect their tumors and spur an immune system attack

Blue Cross Minnesota is the latest example of an insurer looking to unload—or at least, better manage—the risk of patients suffering from permanent kidney failure, who are now eligible to enroll in Advantage plans for the first time this year.

The family-owned Northfield, Ill.-based company is reportedly considering a sale, an IPO or even selling a minority stake, and hired Goldman Sachs Group to explore options, the Wall Street Journal reported.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will not reconsider its decision to reverse a ruling that would have awarded nearly $500 million to states in a lawsuit over the ACA's insurance provider fees.

California-based Kaiser Permanente has been rapidly expanding its outpatient offerings, including retail clinics. It's now opening a large ambulatory facility in Virginia that will offer a number of specialties.

Microsoft Corp. plans to buy Nuance Communications for $19.7 billion as part of an effort to build up its healthcare cloud services.

In January, Prisma CEO Mark O'Halla said the deal faced a legal challenge related to the health system's certificate of public advantage.

The repercussions of this traumatic year dealing with the pandemic aren't going to play out over the next six to 12 months, but over the next generation.

Modern Healthcare has made some big changes, and we’re talking to editor Aurora Aguilar about what readers can expect.

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Beginning this August, Meharry Medical College will welcome the first class to its new School of Applied Computational Sciences. A strategic goal for the historically Black college is to use data to provide insights into health equity.

Amazon said on Monday that it is launching the next phase of its Amazon Web Services Diagnostic Development Initiative, in which it plans to distribute $12 million this year to fund projects for COVID testing, as well as for other infectious disease diagnostics.

Healthcare providers are still overwhelmingly paid on a per-transaction basis, which mutes some of the financial return they’re able to generate on population health management.

The vaccines currently being rolled out across the U.S. offer strong protection. But new studies of experimental updates to the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines mark a critical first step toward an alternative if the virus eventually outsmarts today's shots.