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October 31, 2018 | Wall Street Journal
Anthem Inc.’s earnings climbed in the third quarter and the health insurer boosted its earnings guidance for the year.
The company reported net income of $960 million, up 29% from the comparable quarter a year ago. Anthem said per-share...
October 31, 2018 | Kaiser Family Foundation
The Trump administration earlier this year issued a regulation that expands the availability of “short-term” health insurance plans that do not have to comply with any of the rules in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for plans sold in the...
October 31, 2018 | The Hill
Recent data suggest that health care is a top priority among American voters who will be heading to the polls. Pain is a health issue that touches all lives at some point, whether personally or through extended family.
Caring for pain...
October 31, 2018 | Politico
BOISE, Idaho — No deeply conservative state has done more than Idaho to make Obamacare work. But no other state is doing more to untangle itself from the health care law.
On the eve of the 2019 open enrollment season, at least three...
October 30, 2018 | The Hill
Enrollment in ObamaCare plans is unlikely to increase next year as the Trump administration provides an escape hatch for people who say they have been priced out of coverage.
The repeal of the penalty for not having insurance and the...
October 30, 2018 | Kaiser Health News
In the span of less than 12 hours last week, the Trump administration took two seemingly contradictory actions that could have profound effects on the insurance marketplaces set up by the Affordable Care Act.
First, officials issued...
October 29, 2018 | Washington Post
The National Institutes of Health will pause human testing of an experimental stem cell therapy for heart failure while a board charged with overseeing patient safety reviews the taxpayer-funded trial, in light of emerging questions about...
October 29, 2018 | Associated Press
Gun injuries, including many from assaults, sent 75,000 U.S. children and teens to emergency rooms over nine years at a cost of almost $3 billion, a first-of-its-kind study found.
Researchers called it the first nationally representative...
October 29, 2018 | Bloomberg
Small hospitals need money. Drug companies need patients for tests. Both sides say they’ve found a solution.
Regional hospitals across the U.S. are banding together to make it easier for pharmaceutical companies to use their facilities...
October 25, 2018 | Kaiser Health News
Medicaid enrollment fell by 0.6 percent in 2018 — its first drop since 2007 — due to the strong economy and increased efforts in some states to verify eligibility, a new report finds.
But costs continue to go up. Total Medicaid spending...
October 25, 2018 | Imperial College London
Imperial researchers have shown that more attention to primary health care could help to tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges.
In 1978, the World Health Organization set out a plan for improving health and well-being around the...
October 24, 2018 | STAT
Patients are usually the subject of scientific studies, not the designers. But a new effort is trying to bring patients’ priorities to the forefront in research on mental health.
For months, the Milken Institute and the Depression and...
October 24, 2018 | WHYY
It was a busy morning at Health Center 10 on Cottman Avenue in Northeast Philadelphia. The seating area was full of families waiting to be called in by a doctor, and a line to see the receptionist snaked throughout the clinic.
If the...
October 23, 2018 | Modern Healthcare
The Scripps Research Translational Institute and Nvidia are teaming up to apply artificial intelligence to genomic and health sensor data, the organizations announced Tuesday.The goal of the new partnership is to detect and prevent...
October 23, 2018 | Modern Healthcare
The CMS hopes to reduce the number of babies born addicted to opioids by launching a new Medicaid model to treat their mothers.The CMS Innovation Center will enter into agreements with up to 12 states whose Medicaid agencies will implement...
October 23, 2018 | Modern Healthcare
In handing states greater flexibility to overhaul their insurance markets through waivers, the Trump administration has paved the way for states to diverge further in the access and affordability of its residents' coverage, insurance...
October 23, 2018 | NEJM Catalyst
Alternative payment models (APMs) are the primary strategy of Medicare and payers to bend the cost curve. Early data suggests that these models can reduce costs; participation in the Alternative Quality Contract or Medicare Accountable...
October 22, 2018 | Kaiser Health News
Julie Lopez, 21, has been tested regularly for sexually transmitted diseases since she was a teenager. But when Lopez first asked her primary care doctor about screening, he reacted with surprise, she said.
“He said people don’t usually...
October 21, 2018 | New York Times
MEMPHIS — If you are a Verizon customer on the East Coast, odds are good that your cellphone or tablet arrived by way of a beige, windowless warehouse near Tennessee’s border with Mississippi.
Inside, hundreds of workers, many of them...
October 20, 2018 | Modern Healthcare
A number of hospital systems have moved to establish intensive, team-based primary care clinics along the lines of those operated by innovative independent operators like ChenMed and Iora Health.They include Stanford Medicine, Johns...
