Category: Modern Healthcare

Purdue Pharma, a company whose prescription opioid marketing practices are being blamed for sparking the addiction and overdose crisis, says it’s helping to fund an effort to make a lower-cost overdose antidote.

U.S. healthcare sector job growth nearly doubled from July to August, driven mostly by the ambulatory sector.

New analyses of the major payment reforms begun during the Obama years suggest they do in fact lower healthcare spending. While the savings are small, they provide a strong argument for HHS Secretary Alex Azar to step up the pace of value-based…

A board overseeing Medicare Part A payment decision appeals recently released 90 pages of updated rules, and attorneys warn failing to follow the changes to the letter could end in scrapped appeals worth millions of dollars.

Authorities are ramping up their efforts to identify fentanyl flooding into the U.S. from China, control the ingredients used to make the deadly synthetic opioid, and prosecute and eliminate the manufacturers.

The U.S. is losing ground on its efforts to combat heart disease, and federal officials found that more than 80% of heart attacks and strokes in middle-aged Americans are preventable.

The Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement resulted in a drop of spending on seniors in need of joint replacements just eight months after its launch. The expediency of results has surprised federal researchers as it usually takes much longer for…

A new primary-care pay model shows promise, but needs more work before it’s widely tested, according to the Physician-Focused Payment Model Technical Advisory Committee.

A Chicago-based network of primary care clinics serving the Medicare population is set to expand in the Philadelphia market.

HHS is reapportioning more than $100 million to supplement the $1.3 billion earmarked for care of unaccompanied immigrant minors.