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Should their merger close, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and The Jed Foundation would have an annual operating budget of about $75 million and net assets of around $140 million.
Read full article →CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz on Tuesday previewed the agency's next steps in its effort to root out fraud, waste and abuse in Medicaid.
Read full article →The coordinated diagnostic imaging platform will reach nearly six million patients across all 50 states.
Read full article →ECRI, a nonprofit healthcare quality and safety organization, spun out its spend management and recall management solutions an independent company backed by a strategic growth investment from Accel-KKR.
Read full article →The administration's second stab at a rebate program for statutory drug discounts drew familiar arguments and new alarm bells over a potential expansion from last year's aborted iteration of the pharma-friendly pilot program.
Read full article →UnitedHealthcare is building on its work to support rural hospitals, and will now exempt these facilities from most prior authorizations.
Read full article →A "conservative" preliminary estimate from a Massachusetts watchdog agency acknowledged likely access gains from a pending MinuteClinic affiliation deal, but said the major health system's higher prices would substantially boost commercial healthcare spending.
Read full article →Welcome to this week's Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. Please submit the good news—or the bad—from your shop, and we will feature it here at the end of each week.
Read full article →Specialties reporting the highest levels of burnout include emergency medicine, urological surgery and radiology while the lowest rates of burnout were reported among infectious diseases, nephrology and dermatology.
Read full article →Just over two years ago, Highmark joined forces with Spring Health to launch a new mental well-being platform that made it far easier for members to access critical services. Now, the partners are offering a look at how that program has worked for members.
Read full article →The president selected Erica Schwartz, who served as deputy surgeon general during his first administration.
Read full article →Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will make the case for the Trump budget. Democrats will test his political acumen.
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