Three of Oregons largest hospital systems are suing the state over its alleged lack of adequate mental health care, which they say has forced them to house patients in need of mental health treatment for months.
The U.S. Senate on Sept. 29 confirmed President Joe Biden's nominee to head the U.S. Department of Labor office that regulates employee benefit plans, a few months after lawmakers initially rejected her nomination.
Rite Aid Corp. reported a quarterly loss of more than $300 million amid store closures and fewer customers coming to the drugstore for COVID-19 tests and vaccines.
The City of Memphis, Tennessee, is restoring a legacy pension plan for public safety employees.
Among major health insurers, customers are most satisfied with the telehealth offerings from Humana Inc. and Aetna Inc., according to a survey from J.D. Power.
Wells Fargo & Co., former CEO Tim Sloan, GreatBanc Trust Company and the employee benefit review committee and its members have been sued for alleged breaches of fiduciary duty to participants saving for retirement in the Wells Fargo 401(k) and employee stock ownership plans.
About 43% of working-age adults were inadequately insured in 2022, meaning they were either uninsured, had a coverage gap in the past year or had unaffordable coverage, according to a Commonwealth Fund survey.
Texas Health Resources and UT Southwestern Medical Center are seeking an increase of more than $900 million over the next 32 months in contracts talks with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, according to an email the insurer shared with brokers in late September.
Acute care hospitals generated $39.3 million in improper Medicare Part B payments from 2016 to 2021, but that is a steep drop from previous years as a result of the federal governments adoption of new tools to root out such payment errors.
Biogen will pay $900 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged the company gave doctors kickbacks to encourage them prescribe its drugs.
Lee Enterprises Inc. has purchased group annuity contracts from insurance companies to transfer $86 million in U.S. pension fund liabilities.
As new multimillion-dollar gene therapies continue hitting the market, it's unclear how small employers, state Medicaid programs, and the rest of the health system will absorb such large costs all at once.
Many owners of small and midsize businesses say they are struggling with the cost of health care premiums for their employees, according to a new survey.
People in the greater Seattle area will be asked to approve as much as $1.25 billion in new taxes to improve the mental health system and build five regional crisis care centers.
A move by Optum Inc. to change longstanding practices for licensing data to academic institutions has sparked an outcry among researchers, who argue the move will make accessing data so costly and difficult that universities will scale back their research programs.
The Vermont State Employees Association is gearing up for a fight with Gov. Phil Scotts administration over whether retired state employees should be moved over to a private Medicare Advantage plan.
U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents have begun investigating telehealth provider Done Global Inc.s practices for prescribing controlled substances.
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, the largest health insurer in the state, cleared the latest hurdle in its plan to expand into the health care business when the state Department of Banking and Insurance gave preliminary approval to change its corporate charter.
Bicycle Health, a Boston-based startup that offers virtual treatment for opioid addiction, raised $5 million in new venture capital funding.
The Texas Medical Association is suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services over its final rule implementing a federal surprise billing ban, alleging the mechanisms for arbitrating payments unfairly favor insurers.
CommonSpirit Health has joined the chorus of major nonprofit health systems reporting 10-figure losses for the 2022 fiscal year ended June 30.
Technologists writing in the journal Nature have created a digital "mask," dubbed the DM, which they say offers a pragmatic approach to safeguarding patient privacy in electronic health records and during virtual healthcare visits.
Moodys Investors Service Inc. has issued a scathing corporate credit rating downgrade to Envision Healthcare Corp., assigning the physician staffing service and ambulatory surgery center operator its lowest possible junk rating and warning that a bankruptcy or major restructuring is likely on the horizon.