A new survey shows that health insurers are increasingly interested in selling dental coverage to their health plan customers as a way to grow profits and align with the movement toward value-based, whole-person care.

Since its founding in 2013, Landmark Health has been focused on taking care of seniors with chronic conditions in their homes. CEO Nick Loporcaro says one of the pandemic’s biggest challenges has been addressing the increased feeling of isolation among patients.

COVID-19 has put the future of Cook County's healthcare safety net in jeopardy. It provides far more free care to low-income patients than any other hospital in the area.

A federal district judge ruled that HHS improperly denied Medicare payments to Kindred Healthcare for care provided to dual-eligibles. The agency will have to reevaluate its decision.

Researchers say Black patients are experiencing poorer outcomes from COVID-19 even when underlying health conditions or socioeconomic status are not factors.

The personal protective gear that was in dangerously short supply during the early weeks of the coronavirus crisis in the U.S. is running low again as the virus resumes its rapid spread and the number of hospitalized patients climbs.

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While the Lown Institute's ranking system includes the typical Medicare quality measures, it also uses data from CMS, hospital 990 forms and other federal data to show how well hospitals are leveraging their role in communities.

Some facilities that have had coronavirus cases and deaths turn up as having none on Medicare's COVID-19 nursing home website. The data may be incomplete because the reporting requirements don't reach back to the start of the pandemic.

The 2010 passage of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act was associated with a 47% reduction in obesity prevalence among students in poverty.

Labs are deploying automated, high-throughput sample preparation instruments and techniques to increase testing throughput, but some are experiencing supply chain disruptions at this stage in the workflow, as well.

A survey revealed low-income and Black New York City residents are more likely to have access to only one electronic device at home, limiting their access telehealth services when others are using that technology.

Hydroxychloroquine has emerged as a controversial treatment option for COVID-19 but Henry Ford found it led to lower death rates.

Illinois' biggest independent doctors’ practice taps a former executive with UnitedHealth Group.

New York hospitals released more than 6,300 recovering coronavirus patients into nursing homes during the height of the pandemic under a controversial, now-scrapped policy, but state officials argued it was not to blame for high death tolls.

Patients face the possibility of higher drug costs under a federal rule finalized this spring by the Trump administration.

As our country considers how we address the legacies of structural racism brought to a boiling point by George Floyd's death, our path forward must include a federally backed capital investment plan for our safety-net hospitals and clinics.

If the protests had driven an explosion in cases, experts say, the jumps would have started to become apparent within two weeks—and perhaps as early as five days. But that didn't happen in many cities with the largest protests.

Accountable care organization Southwestern Health Resources quickly moved its clinical services online as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold. Its COO Dr. Sanjay Doddamani said there are more changes coming to re-align value-based care.

"We are exhausted and we are not OK," said Dr. Patrice Harris, a psychiatrist who just ended her yearlong term as president of the American Medical Association. She was speaking not so much for herself as for her community.

Walgreens Boots Alliance is the latest brand to cut advertising amid criticism over Facebook's handling of hate speech and misinformation.

Nursing home residents are among the Americans getting $1,200 checks as part of the U.S. government's plan to revive the economy. But with many long-term care facilities under lockdown to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks, what are the rules around how the money is handled?

More than 700 nurses went on strike at Amita St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, Ill., over staffing concerns and alleged unfair labor practices.

Much as Sputnik I transformed American science—ultimately leading to the first human steps on the moon—medicine is ready for its own moon landing. Let us make this the positive legacy of the current tragedy.

Federal jobs data from June show the healthcare industry added 15% more jobs than in May, indicating providers' recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic is growing.

As the federal government rolls out new vertical merger guidelines, experts say they won't prevent anticompetitive mergers in healthcare. There is little proof these mergers boost competition.

A spate of healthcare bankruptcies is expected this fall as small hospitals suffer through the COVID-19 crunch. That may lure opportunistic buyers who test the limits of maximizing reimbursement.

Intermountain Healthcare, the Premier healthcare alliance and four healthcare trade groups have banded together to push back on Congress' decadeslong ban on developing a national patient identifier.

Defective items make up the bulk of the personal protective equipment recently sent by the federal government to New Hampshire nursing homes struggling with the coronavirus pandemic, according to the head of an industry group who called the shipments "profoundly insulting."