Under 10% of medications covered by Medicare part B and D account for the majority of relative spending, according to a new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Legislation aimed at lowering drug costs is expected in Biden's upcoming infrastructure bill.

They can use it to slow the spread of the virus, strengthen vaccine efforts and improve healthcare services and related infrastructure. Applications are due May 14.

Top brass at Health Care Service Corp. got big raises last year, as health insurers emerged largely unscathed from the economic fallout of the pandemic.

2021's first quarter represents the largest funding quarter to date for the digital health sector since 2010, according to a new analysis.

Kevin Shimamoto, vice president and chief information officer at Valley Children’s Healthcare in Madera, Calif., talks about the opportunities and challenges of doing a virtual go-live for a new electronic health record system during the pandemic.

For years, healthcare providers have worked with schools and districts in various ways to care for students. Reaching children at school made sense. Until the pandemic sent them home.

Audrey Andrews has served in the role since 2013. Tenet's chief administrative officer, Tom Arnst, will take on the role of general counsel in addition to his existing duties.

Public health officials who have juggled bare-bones budgets for years are happy to have the additional money. Yet they worry it will soon dry up as the pandemic recedes, leaving the country unprepared for future crises.

This is University Hospitals' largest addition to date, bringing multiple hospitals and ambulatory centers and more than 3,000 caregivers and 600 physicians under its umbrella.

There's revenue and potentially better outcomes to gain when a hospital fills patient prescriptions at their own in-house specialty pharmacy. But most patients are now covered by insurers who have vertically integrated a specialty pharmacy as subsidiaries.

Emergency doctors and nurses in Michigan are seeing a massive increase in patients seeking care in hospital EDs, a mixture of ailments not seen before in previous COVID-19 surges.

Memorial Hermann Health System, OSF HealthCare and University of Chicago Medical Center had patients affected in the data breach, in which a former Med-Data employee reportedly uploaded files with patient data to public repositories on GitHub.

As members of Congress decide how to expand access to telehealth after the pandemic, one of the biggest questions has centered around how much Medicare providers should be paid for virtual care.

It's no secret that many Americans are frustrated by rising healthcare costs, with 8 in 10 saying it's very important that Congress work on lowering prescription drug costs.

Vaccine websites are popping up left and right to communicate information about eligibility and ease the sign-up process. However, many are riddled with glitches and put unnecessary burdens on health systems.

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CMS said the Trump administration should not have approved its more than $100 billion request without going through the usual notice and comment period.

Providers worry the proposal will create an undue burden as they already have workplace safety procedures in place. But data surrounding healthcare workplace violence is spotty.

Stockpiling, government subsidies, pent-up elective procedure demand and bolstered infection-prevention protocols are expected to boost medical suppliers' balance sheets.

Bright Health has acquired a telehealth company that provides virtual care software to nearly 60 health systems nationwide.