Research on asthma shows African Americans are six times more likely to have an ER visit and three times more likely to die, says Marci Bennafield, clinical instructor in health informatics for Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions.

Missouri- and New Jersey-based drugmaker Nostrum Laboratories and its founder and CEO, Dr. Nirmal Mulye, have agreed to pay a minimum of $3,825,000 – and up to $50 million if certain financial contingencies are met – to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly underpaying Medicaid rebates due for Nostrum’s drug […]

The American Medical Association and others are calling on Congress to stop the advanced Alternative Payment Model bonus payment cut that is scheduled to expire at the end of the year for most physicians.

Health equity is being brought into the chapter’s current events, says Elise Kohl-Grant, cochair of the programming committee at the chapter.

Prices negotiated by health insurers show a wide amount of variation between geographic locations, with a new study in JAMA Health Forum showing that these price variations often occur with the same insurer, costing more in one locale than in another.