Category: Modern Healthcare

The majority of new hires—about 150—will be care managers who were hired as contract employees to ensure the system could accommodate an increase in patients. Doctors and physician assistants spread throughout the health system will…

Five doctors, a pharmacist and three medical assistants were among 10 defendants charged with taking in more than $5 million by illegally prescribing millions of oxycodone pills to patients, including apparent drug addicts, who had no legitimate…

The largest hospitals in Panama City, Fla., are shutting down and evacuating patients due to heavy damage from Hurricane Michael.

Colorado Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne says industry needs to get behind efforts to address affordability.

A new report calls for reforms in state prison health systems that include increasing partnerships between correction facilities and community healthcare providers in order to provide inmates continuity of care during their incarceration and beyond.

Colorado’s and Mississippi’s Medicaid programs have ordered hospitals to report which drugs they receive 340B discounts for, marking the latest effort to curb state drug spending.

The federal government doled out more than $2 billion in fiscal 2018 to support medical and social services for people living with HIV/AIDS. Advocates say the program’s success should serve as a model for commitment needed to address the opioid…

Humana agreed to pay Texas a $700,000 fine for failing to maintain an adequate number of in-network anesthesiologists at its contracted hospitals in four counties, which led to patients receiving surprise out-of-network bills.

Sixteen months after Walgreens Boots Alliance concluded a disastrous relationship with Theranos, the now-defunct Silicon Valley blood-testing company, the pharmacy giant has linked up with LabCorp, one of the world’s largest clinical laboratory…

The inspection by CMS follows a Monday Crain’s article raising infection control and instrument cleaning issues at the DMC.