Strategic Planning

Instead of buying a health insurance policy to cover their workers, a growing number of small and midsized companies are opting to pay their employees' medical claims directly, a potentially riskier practice financially called self-insuring, a recent study found.

Scientists at the University of Southern California discovered a key weapon used by the Zika virus to ravage the brains of infected fetuses: proteins.

Now that hospitals have themselves combined, in many cases, into companies that dominate their communities, insurance executives argue the only way to fight bigness is bigness.

The Mount Sinai Health System in New York has formed a research affiliation with Stony Brook Medicine, a state-run health system and medical school on New York's Long Island, and will collaborate on research, academic programs, and clinical care initiatives.

Hillary Clinton urged Congress to return to Washington and approve Zika funding for treatment, research and testing.

Aetna has sent a letter to over 900 physicians, telling them they fall within the top 1 percent of opioid prescribers.

Memorial Healthcare System, has joined the Caris Centers of Excellence for Precision Medicine Network, a partnership aimed at advancing tumor profiling and enhancing access to precision medicine, Caris announced Monday.

Even for states that have managed to institute some kind of method for consumers to compare prices for healthcare services, patients have few options for finding current pricing on common procedures. That's what a study from the nonprofit advocacy group Public Citizen shows.

Community Health Systems is set to unload two more hospitals than originally planned, bringing the total number to 12, according to a transcript of a second-quarter earnings call.

Centene's Medicare Advantage network could not handle the type of Medicare Advantage business required in a potential Humana divestiture, Centene Chairman and CEO Michael F. Neidorff said during an earnings call this week.