HHS has asked the White House Office of Management and Budget to once again delay the effective date of a yet-to-be-released final rule that would penalize drugmakers that deliberately overcharge providers for drugs purchased under Medicare's 340B drug discount program.
Health insurer Aetna announced on Tuesday that beginning in 2019 it will pass on the rebates it gets from drugmakers to the consumers who take those drugs.
Apple's medical records feature is now available to all iPhone users with iOS 11.3 who receive care at one of 39 participating health systems, representing hundreds of hospitals.
The two health systems will co-own an 80-bed hospital in rural Schuylkill County, in today's bite-sized hospital and health industry news from Idaho, Pennsylvania, and Utah.
Two new papers suggest that fewer personal bankruptcies are caused by hospitalizations than is commonly believed—and that the larger financial effects of a hospitalization may be tied to changes in employment status and income that occur in the months or years after a hospital stay.
Authors of a recent study on sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUIDS) say a recent push for so-called "skin-to-skin care" could explain why the United States has made no progress on reducing SUIDs among infants in their first 28 days of life—but some providers are pushing back.
On Thursday evening, the Wall Street Journal reported that retail giant Walmart is in early talks to buy insurer Humana—a potentially giant deal even by the standards of the recent wave of proposed health care mega-mergers. Here's what Advisory Board experts think it could mean.
