High-priced healthcare state by state | 2 M&A completions | more

Going by the price of being a patient, North Carolina and Hawaii bookend the other 48 states.

Previously disclosed terms valued the transactions at a combined $1.5 billion.

The first phase of Kaiser Permanente’s rollout of Risant Health has been completed, as the new nonprofit organization has officially closed its blockbuster acquisition of Geisinger Health.

The nation’s K-12 teachers and school administrators are intrigued by—yet anxious about—the advance of AI into their world.

Critics say the model caters to the wealthy while taking primary care physicians out of circulation for everyone else. Not so, respond concierge proponents.

Hospitals short on cash are more likely than their financially flush counterparts to offer patients interest-accruing loans or credit cards to pay for their care.

The past four years have witnessed major advancements in medical science’s drive to unravel the complexities of the human immune system. We have the COVID-19 pandemic to thank for much of the progress. 

Leah Davis, DO, and Sharon D'Souza MD, shared their thoughts in a piece published by Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology.  

MRI data from the Framingham Heart Study shows an increase in brain volume and surface area over a 40-year timeframe.

"I wasn’t expecting these results among women in this lower age group, because we usually see increased risk for heart disease among older women," one cardiologist said. "It was definitely surprising.”