CenterWell, Humana’s senior-focused primary care division, will continue to expand throughout 2025, with plans to open centers in new metro areas, including Augusta and Savannah, Georgia; the Triad Region (Burlington, Greensboro and Winston Salem) in N…
The House is planning to vote on a budget resolution next week that would likely include up to $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise’s (R-La.) office confirmed the vote to The Hill on Wednesday.
Jefferson Health is launching a multi-year improvement project to modernize its facilities and technology, with the initial focus centering on Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (TJUH) and Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital – two of Philadelphi…
CVS Health has named Ed DeVaney president of the company’s CVS Caremark pharmacy benefits manager business, CVS announced this week.
DeVaney ascends to the top post after having been named interim president in December, and will report to Prem Shah, gr…
This analysis presents key facts about hospitals with more than 40 charts related to national spending on hospital care, characteristics of the hospital industry, rural hospitals, use of hospital care, out-of-pocket spending and medical debt, hospital …
President Donald Trump has said he won’t support major cuts to the Medicaid health insurance program for people with low incomes, but he has endorsed a House budget plan that calls for major cuts, leaving the program’s future in doubt. Meanwhile, thousands of workers at the Department of Health and Human Services were fired over the holiday weekend, from the National Institutes of Health, the FDA, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with possibly more cuts to come.
Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico Magazine, and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet join KFF Health News’ Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more.
The on-again, off-again speculation that Walgreens is for sale to a private equity firm is on again.
An analysis of publicly traded healthcare companies reveals shareholder payouts–dividends and stock buybacks–have surged more than threefold since 2001, bringing into focus the financial priorities of the healthcare sector.
Republicans in Congress have suggested big cuts to Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance program for people with low incomes or disabilities. The complex, multifaceted program touches millions of Americans and has become deeply woven into state budgets and the U.S. health care system.
Obesity rates continue to climb across the country, and a new study from UnitedHealthcare and the Health Action Council finds that this is a major driver of rising healthcare costs in the U.S., as well as a potential cost driver for employers.
