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Trump budget impact: Medicaid cuts could shift poor patients from doctors'...
President Donald Trump’s proposed cuts in health-care spending, if enacted, would likely reduce the number of Coloradans on Medicaid as well as the number of Colorado physicians who will continue to...
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Nashville health care company buys Georgia physician group
Envision Healthcare Corp., the company that was formed late last year by the merger of Nashville-based AmSurg Corp. and Colorado-based Envision Healthcare Holdings Inc., has bought an emergency...
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A year in the life of Memphis' Medical District
A year after coalescing around the mission of strengthening the communities between and around its eight anchor institutions, the Memphis Medical District Collaborative (MMDC) has issued its first-year...
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Professor revamps physical therapy education
Dr. Zoher Kapasi believes physical therapy can make a huge difference in people’s health if they can learn to use their bodies’ own power to heal and live a better life. Because of this belief, he is...
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Grady EMS house calls reduce strain on ER
The Grady EMS Paramedicine Program is bringing back the house call to keep nonemergency cases out of the emergency room while still helping patients. The ever-increasing demand for services, requested...
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Effort to reduce Oregon pain pill prescriptions pays off
On Dec. 1, 2015, a dozen Portland hospitals, clinics, health departments, drug treatment centers and coordinated care organizations came together to announce the culmination of an 18-month effort to...
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Health Care Heroes Awards - Finalists
Physician/Physician Practice Group Finalists Dr. Barunashish Brahma Medical Director, Neurospine Division Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Dr. Barunashish Brahma, medical director of the Neurospine...
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Addressing the drug coupon conundrum
Coupons have been around since the late 1800s. Coca-Cola was the first to offer them, but they didn’t come in a glossy magazine in the Sunday paper. The soda supergiant began dispensing hand-written...
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Telemedicine opens doors for patients
Virtual office visits could become more commonplace as more sectors of the health care industry come to value the long-distance relationship between doctors and patients. Known as telehealth, the...
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Patterson remains absent from Cerner's annual shareholder meeting
Cerner Corp. executives gathered Wednesday for the North Kansas City-based company's annual shareholder meeting, but CEO Neal Patterson still remained absent. Cliff Illig, co-founder and vice chairman...
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Birmingham health system will regain access to Humana insurance network
Patients covered under Humana’s Medicare and commercial health insurance soon will have in-network access to one of Alabama's largest health systems once again. Humana struck a deal with Tenet...
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WCA CEO: Jamestown hospital benefitting from cross-state merger
Nearly a year after state officials approved an affiliation with a Pennsylvania health system, a Jamestown hospital is touting new technology capabilities, expanded programs and volume growth. Now...
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TriCore developing the 'Uber of medicine'
The leadership at TriCore Reference Laboratories wants to make it easy to check your odds of catching a cold at work. So easy, TriCore President and CEO Khosrow Shotorbani said it will be as simple as...
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Trump budget impact: It's a prescription for crippling medical research,...
Hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for Denver-area medical research facilities could evaporate under White House budget proposals, and the cost for companies to develop drugs and medical...
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Blue Cross of KC pulls out of ACA market, citing losses and uncertainty
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City said Wednesday that it can no longer bear "unsustainable" losses from offering individual Affordable Care Act plans. The Kansas City-based insurer said it will...
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How this health startup wants to change medicine with $15 online doctor visits
San Francisco online health startup Lemonaid Health wants to make doctor visits cheaper and faster, and it’s developed an algorithm to help doctors treat the most common ailments. For $15 per visit,...
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Bringing care closer to home: Health systems accelerate expansion plans as...
More than 100 miles north of Pittsburgh, UPMC is investing $111 million to expand its Hamot hospital facility in Erie with a seven-story, 177,000-square-foot patient care tower that will include new...
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Outstanding Voices: Head of Seattle Children's gender clinic fights for...
Dr. David Breland heads up the gender clinic at Seattle Children's, where he regularly works with transgender youth. He helped opened the clinic at the hospital after spending time working at a clinic...
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Medi-juana dispensary Aloha Green to sell non-THC products
Medical cannabis dispensary Aloha Green Holdings said it will begin selling cannabidiol or CBD-only products derived from hemp, along with other related products at its 1314 S. King Street location in...
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KBI Biopharma president talks $30M expansion at two sites, including Durham
KBI Biopharma – a subsidiary of JSR Corporation – has announced a $30 million manufacturing expansion at its sites in Durham and Boulder, Colorado.
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