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NYU Langone Medical Center and Winthrop-University Hospital have signed a non-binding letter of intent that would unite the two prominent organizations in the creation of an integrated healthcare network for the New York metro area.
The Office of Rural Health Policy has announced the nine providers that will receive the first of $4 million in federal funding over the next three years.
High-need individuals who cost the public or private sectors $50,000 or more in a single year top the list of the most expensive sources of healthcare costs, according to a study released by the American Health Policy Institute.
Provider directories for some health plans sold through Covered California and in the private market are so inaccurate that they create an "awful" situation for consumers trying to find doctors, according to the lead author of a new study published in the journal Health Affairs.
Integrated healthcare delivery and financing company UPMC is taking steps to thwart wasteful spending and high costs in forming an independent company called Pensiamo, which aims to help hospitals improve supply chain performance with a source-to-pay offering, including cognitive analytics with IBM Watson Health Technologies.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Thursday that it has barred Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes from the blood-testing business for two years, according to a statement on the company's website.
A Health Affairs study of national healthcare spending and where it's going shows that purchases of medical services and increased compensation of highly skilled professionals accounted for spending growth in multiple areas between 1997 and 2012. The study looked at hospitals, physician offices and outpatient centers.
Between 1997 and 2011, there was a nearly 50 percent reduction in emergency department mortality rates for adults in the United States, according to a new study published by Health Affairs.
The National Institutes of Health has announced $55 million in awards in the 2016 fiscal year needed to launch the Cohort Program of President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative.
Parents who say their children with autism are legally entitled to applied behavioral analysis -- or ABA -- treatment are butting heads with Texas officials. And without Medicaid coverage, they must either forgo the therapy or find a way to pay for individual insurance plans that help pick up the costs.