Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies Highmark and HealthNow New York announced the finalization of their affiliation, a collaboration that they say will lead to better services and lower costs for their 6.5 million members.

Medicare Advantage insurers are increasingly worried about how their ability to capture individuals' risk scores will impact their profits in the coming years.

Nursing homes with lower star quality ratings experienced higher staff turnover, according to a new study.

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?

Joint replacement, spinal fusion and gastrointestinal surgeries were on average $4,229 less when providers charged a set price.

Skilled nursing facilities cut therapist staffing levels after the transition to PDPM and did not offset those changes with other hiring, according to a new study.

Regional health systems are working together more than ever to combat COVID-19, and are hopeful the collaborative spirit will endure, if regulators allow it.

The Federal Trade Commission will not appeal a federal judge's dismissal of its lawsuit that sought to block the Jefferson Health and Albert Einstein Healthcare Network merger.

There has been a stark rise in demand children's mental healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic, and many experts feel children's mental health is the next great healthcare crisis.

The winter storms that swept through much of the country in mid-February caused a significant disruption in COVID-19 vaccination efforts. The Houston Methodist system was in the thick of it all, contending with everything from crowded emergency departments to quickly standing up a vaccination event to assist the county health department.

The sale of the business unit to a private equity firm will provide Perrigo with upward of $2 billion in available cash and serves as part of a "transformation plan" as the company has shifted toward more self-care products.

Shifting to an age-based priority system—after health workers, nursing home patients and people 65 and up have been offered vaccines—has frustrated people with health conditions such as cancer or diabetes who thought they would be next in line.

The U.S. vaccine campaign has heightened tensions between rural and urban America, where from Oregon to Tennessee to upstate New York complaints are surfacing of a real—or perceived—inequity in vaccine allocation.

With the U.S. vaccination drive picking up speed and a third formula on the way, states eager to reopen for business are easing coronavirus restrictions despite warnings from health experts that the outbreak is far from over and that moving too quickly could prolong the misery.

Proposed legislation would continue using Medicaid funds to place recipients on private health insurance. But, under the proposal, those who don't work or go to school could be moved to the traditional fee-for-service Medicaid program. More than 300,000 people are currently on the state's Medicaid expansion.

Nearly 4 million doses of the vaccine will be shipped Sunday night, and will begin to be delivered to states for injections starting on Tuesday.

The drop in screening comes at a significant moment in the outbreak: Experts are cautiously optimistic that COVID-19 is receding after killing more than 500,000 people in the U.S. but concerned that emerging variants could prolong the epidemic.

Of that, $10 million is earmarked for the new building, and $5.5 million will support an epilepsy study exploring the link between stress and seizures. In honor of the donation, the Clinic will name its epilepsy center The Charles Shor Epilepsy Center.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire is introducing a bill to improve access to healthcare by lowering premiums and deductibles for low- and middle-income families.

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.

Clinical measures adopted to address COVID patients have staying power beyond the pandemic.

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Alicia Wilson, vice president for economic development at Johns Hopkins University Medicine, talks about keeping this principle in mind during her career: “If I did right by my community, it would do right by me.”

The debate over the minimum wage could not come at a more pivotal time, as the pandemic revealed endless evidence of the country’s wealth gap.

Across the U.S., 174 rural hospitals have closed since 2005, and 47% of all rural hospitals have a negative operating margin. Yet, reason for optimism has emerged.