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The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and the Parkinson's Action Network have announced plans to integrate. MJFF made the announcement in a statement, saying that PAN will cease to operate as an independent organization, and will merge into the Foundation.
UPMC, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, will increase minimum starting salaries for entry-level positions to $15 an hour by January 2021, according to UPMC.com.
The healthcare system in the United States is spending billions per year unnecessarily by continuing to use manual administrative processes for basic transactions, according to the 2015 CAQH Index released Wednesday.
MedStar Health was forced to turn some patients away on Tuesday as it recovered from a computer virus.
A new analysis of data shows patients spend about $17 billion annually treating potentially avoidable complications of diabetes, said researchers at the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute.
Caleb Anderson said that one potential option is to have a vendor run the patient call center, submit claims, handle denials and more.
Cholesterol test results obtained through Theranos Inc. were substantially different than those from large laboratory companies, implying that doctors' medical decisions could be thrown off by Theranos-acquired results, a study finds.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will requiring states to provide mental health and substance abuse assistance as they would any other medical services for low-income adults and children.
Mergers and consolidations should be saving hospitals money from having benefits of scale, but a new report by PwC finds this isn't the case.
MedStar said in a statement that the virus prevented some employees from logging into system but that all of its clinics remain open and functioning.