Category: Modern Healthcare

The Association of American Medical Colleges has selected Smithsonian Institution Secretary Dr. David Skorton as its next CEO beginning in July.

Health insurer Cigna Corp. and pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts said they closed their merger on Thursday, less than a year after the companies first agreed to combine in a deal that further transforms the healthcare landscape.

A federal judge struck down a New York state law intended to raise $600 million from opioid manufacturers to pay for treatment .

MetroHealth in Cleveland has launched a search to find a pediatric partner. Its current contracts with two local providers are set to end in June 2019.

The health system’s three-story, 100,000-square-foot outpatient center features primary and specialty care, including dermatology and neurosurgery, as well as an outpatient surgery center.

Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie’s first full briefing on the VA Mission Act was scant on details for the most controversial provision: the automatic triggers to send veterans out to private physicians or hospitals for treatment.

Even if the Affordable Care Act is ultimately deemed unconstitutional, stakeholders wouldn’t allow the momentum surrounding value-based care models and biosimilars to stall, experts and provider groups said.

Despite a last-minute surge in enrollment, HealthCare.gov sign-ups drop 4.2% from last year.

Nineteen states ban medication abortion performed through telemedicine. Opponents of the bans say they restrict access, while proponents say they promote patient safety.

Many healthcare industry groups support the Trump administration’s proposed rule to require drugmakers to list a drug’s wholesale price in TV ads, while pharmaceutical groups bashed the proposal.