Category: Modern Healthcare

Challenging the Trump administration on a high-profile consumer issue, leading congressional liberals plan to unveil a package of bills Thursday designed to radically reduce what Americans pay for prescription drugs by linking prices to lower costs…

Here’s hoping the pink wave washes the label of “women’s issues” off the legislative agenda.

Community Health Systems generated $400 million in gross proceeds on hospital divestitures in 2018, less than half of its $1.3 billion target, leaders from the hospital chain said Wednesday

Ratings agency S&P Global predicts that U.S. health insurers’ credit ratings will remain stable thanks to diminished legislative uncertainty and factors ensuring growth across several lines of business.

A proposal from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to redistribute DSH money more equitably among states has a short runway to get congressional support ahead of a key September deadline. Can it get there?

Press Ganey has promoted Joe Greskoviak to CEO of the patient satisfaction consultancy. Longtime CEO Patrick Ryan is now executive chairman.

The Food and Drug Administration found an Akorn facility violated current good manufacturing practice regulations. The drugmaker’s stock has taken a hit due to the warning letter.

Police have served a search warrant to get DNA from all male employees at a long-term care facility in Phoenix where a patient in a vegetative state for years gave birth, triggering reviews by state agencies and highlighting safety concerns.

Scientists are creating a smartphone app that beams sound waves to measure breathing — and summon help if it stops. It could be a novel new way to detect opioid overdoses.

CVS Health leadership said despite a federal judge’s ongoing review of the company’s merger with Aetna, they are “one company” and expect benefits to begin accruing in the first quarter, with medical cost savings by the end of the year.