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Indian Hill organic farm teams with UC to teach doctors, nurses and medical...
Turner Farm in Indian Hill is working with the University of Cincinnati to develop programs to teach the healing power of organic, plant-based food to medical students as well as doctors and nurses....
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Health insurance premiums to increase by 19% in Florida
What’s the likelihood your health insurance premiums will go down next year? If you’re in Florida, highly unlikely. Premiums for Florida major medical plans will increase by an average of 19 percent on...
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Phoenix Health Plan dumps Obamacare Exchange, leaves Cigna as sole carrier in...
Phoenix Health Plans Inc. — which proposed a 122.8 percent rate increase next year for its Obamacare marketplace plans — is bailing out. The gigantic rate increase is probably a good indication the...
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Q&A: How Healthways CEO scripted his company's transformation after a...
Donato Tramuto knew from the day he took over as CEO of then-struggling Franklin-based well-being company Healthways what he was going to have to do. It was just about one year ago. The company's total...
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How Molina is expanding its marketplace presence while other insurance...
While headlines seem to be dominated by news of insurers leaving the health insurance exchange marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act, with the Kaiser Family Foundation reporting that 31...
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Wyden says Medicaid may have "grossly" overpaid for EpiPens
Sens. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, and Frank Pallone Jr., a New Jersey Democrat, contend Medicaid may have been “grossly overpaying” for the EpiPen because Mylan returned too little in rebates. It’s...
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2017 Obamacare health insurance rates to rise 19% in Florida
Starting Jan. 1, premiums for Florida individual major medical plans in compliance with the federal Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act will go up an average of 19 percent, according to the...
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Amid nation’s opioid epidemic, UW Medicine uses telehealth program to reach...
Amid the national opioid and heroin epidemic, UW Medicine has launched a new telehealth program to assist rural health care providers in treating people with addictions. Originally launched in July,...
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BREAKING: Cigna reviewing plans to be sole offering on Obamacare exchange in...
Now that Phoenix Health Plans Inc. is bailing out of the Obamacare health insurance marketplace, Cigna Healthcare of Arizona Inc. is the only one left in Maricopa County. This gives Cigna access to...
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2017 Obamacare health insurance rates to rise in Florida
Starting Jan. 1, premiums for Florida individual major medical plans in compliance with the federal Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act will go up an average of 19 percent, according to the...
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2017 Obamacare health insurance rates to rise 19% in Florida
Starting Jan. 1, premiums for Florida individual major medical plans in compliance with the federal Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act will go up an average of 19 percent, according to the...
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These are the wealthiest health care executives in Massachusetts
Want to pull in a big paycheck? You might want to work in the health care field. According to data released by net worth database Affluence IQ, top earners in Massachusetts working in health care had a...
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22nd Century expands focus on cannabis through subsidiary
A Clarence biotechnology firm is expanding its cannabis subsidiary with an eye toward participating in the medical marijuana program here in New York and elsewhere. Botanical Genetics LLC , a...
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New report offers window on CCO members, performance and drug costs
Oregon’s Coordinated Care Organizations, which dispense Medicaid services to 1.1 million Oregonians, get high marks in member satisfaction, yet complaints have steadily increased each quarter. So says...
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Appointees to governor’s health care commission include some unusual names
Gov. Charlie Baker has named his eight appointments to the state’s health care commission reviewing provider pricing, including an executive heading the most expensive hospitals in the state and an...
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Minimum-wage-hike amendment winning, ColoradoCare getting crushed
A constitutional amendment to raise Colorado’s minimum wage holds a 13-point lead in the first publicly released poll on the proposal, which came out on Tuesday. Also, the ColoradoCare amendment to...
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Meet the Lakeland investor who sees big opportunities in biopharma
Initiatives to treat HIV and low testosterone are getting a funding boost from a venture capital firm in Lakeland. Alpha Venture Capital Partners LP has large ownership positions in two publicly traded...
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Breast cancer health care group lands new leadership
WINGS, a San Antonio nonprofit that helps uninsured women in the region bridge the gap between diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, has tapped a new executive director to lead the organization....
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Health benefits go up and up for employers
Health benefits are taking a bigger bite out of companies’ annual budgets, even as costs are shifted increasingly to employees, according to a new study from the Society for Human Resource Management....
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EXCLUSIVE: Pappas Investments proposes big medical office in Roseville
Sacramento property investment and development company Pappas Investments Inc. is proposing to build a three-story, 68,901-square-foot medical office building at 1513 Eureka Road in Roseville. The...
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