Expansion by acquisition in the South | CEO turnover in California | Coverage innovation in the Silver State

Nevada lawmakers have passed a new law that creates a public healthcare option, aiming to reduce costs and incentivize consumers to consider lower priced healthcare plans rather than none at all. 

NextGen Healthcare, an electronic health record company and provider of ambulatory-focused technology services, and its president and CEO, Rusty Frantz, have reached a mutual agreement for Frantz to step down from his role, effective immediately. 

LifePoint Health is acquiring post-acute care provider Kindred Healthcare. 

Pressures from the pandemic will undoubtedly drive health systems and hospitals to merge—with unfortunate consequences for patients, Bloomberg’s editorial board recently wrote in an opinion article.

CVS Health has updated its ExtraCare Rewards loyalty program for the first time in 20 years. 

A new study has revealed that COVID-19 was likely already spreading in the U.S. much earlier than previously reported. In fact, the study adds to the CDC’s study suggesting the virus was present here as early as December 2019.

The two advocacy groups shared their revisions on June 18 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. 

Researchers have developed a nanopore that uses AI to detect COVID-19 and other viruses in easily obtained saliva specimens.

This was found to be true for patients taking both hydrophilic and lipophilic statins.

Focusing on higher-risk groups dropped the pool who qualified for imaging down from 53% to 38%, according to new research published in Cancer Reports.