The Illinois Health Facilities & Services Review Board yesterday voted 3-2 to deny a change of ownership request for the Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health merger. The board later voted to reconsider the vote. It next meets on December 13.

In the realm of mobile crisis interventions, the state of Oregon will be getting a boost from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. HHS, through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, has announced approval of the Oregon Health Authority’s proposal to cover community-based mobile crisis intervention services in Medicaid.

Almost three quarters of physicians, 74%, say they’re unclear on what constitutes a life-threatening emergency that would allow a doctor to legally perform an abortion in states where it is otherwise banned, a new survey has found.

The merger between Lightbeam and CareSignal aims to help more health systems improve patient engagement and population health, according to Lightbeam Health Solutions President Jerry Shultz and CareSignal CEO Blake Marggraff.  

Aetna will now be in the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges in 12 states after adding four more states to that total, the insurer said. California, Delaware, Illinois and New Jersey have been added to Aetna’s slate for the 2023 plan year, joining Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, North Carolina, Nevada, Texas and Virginia. The CVS Health […]

Unsealed brief  in the Department of Justice’s case against the UnitedHealth Group and Change Healthcare merger solidify arguments on both sides in the antitrust case.

Between 2010 and 2021, 136 rural hospitals closed, according to the UNC Cecil G. Sheps Center. Nineteen of these closures occurred in 2020, the most of any year in the past decade.

Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Bryan Cutler explains how the state works to improve patient outcomes and rise to post-pandemic challenges.

Physician firm Envision Healthcare has filed a lawsuit against UnitedHealthcare over the insurer’s denied claims, sparking a countersuit from UHC, which claimed Envision fraudulently upcoded claims for services provided to UHC members.

Quality can go a long way in determining if a consumer is willing to pay more for their healthcare, as indicated by new survey responses published by revenue cycle company AKASA. Out of more than 2,000 respondents, the survey found that 57% would pay more for higher quality of care. Out of all categories in […]