Category: Modern Healthcare

Centene Corp.’s Affordable Care Act exchange membership reached nearly 1.5 million last year, helping boost the health insurer’s revenue during the fourth-quarter and full-year 2018.

A Senate panel focused on bringing down healthcare costs hears a different pitch on drug pricing: swap insurers for wholesalers.

Commercial and Medicare Advantage plans pay mental health providers in their networks significantly lower rates than traditional Medicare pays, which likely reduces access for patients.

The debate on how to fix balance billing for patients is intensifying, and senators leading the charge on legislation want hard answers from industry.

Premier reported strong growth in its performance services segment in the second quarter of its fiscal 2019, while its much larger supply chain services segment grew only 1% year-over-year.

While executives didn’t outline why the deal fell through, there had been some concern regarding the alignment of their academic missions as well as a mismatch of their physician-management models, sources close to the matter said.

A top HHS official called for grassroots organizers to inform states of the perils of marijuana use as more states consider legalization.

A new study found the increased rate of hepatitis C cases is linked to 2010 changes to the painkiller OxyContin that made it harder to abuse.

Congress’ leaders on VA issues are urging VA Secretary Robert Wilkie to communicate more on the implementation of the VA Mission Act, the Cerner electronic health records contract.

Colorado hospitals could have passed on savings to consumers of as much as $11.5 billion over a nine-year period if they had better contained costs and lowered their margins, according to a new state report.