Anthem is asking the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to rush the appeals process as it tries to reverse a lower court’s ruling blocking its $54 million of acquisition of Cigna.

Health insurers Aetna and Humana have mutually ended their $37 billion merger agreement two weeks after a federal judge blocked the deal on antitrust grounds. 

Researchers have developed a computer learning algorithm capable of predicting remission rates for patient with acute myelogenous leukemia (AML).

West Virginia's Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC), after its implementation of the patient engagement and education system SmarTigr, has reduced readmission of patients with chronic conditions such as congestive heart failure (CHF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

An image tells a thousand word—but it also can treat older patients in rural communities. Kathy Rush, professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) Okanagan, conducted a study testing how photographs can improve the treatment of elderly rural patients with arterial fibrillation. 

The $54 billion acquisition of Cigna by Anthem has met the same fate as the $37 billion merger of Aetna and Humana: blocked by a federal judge on antitrust grounds. 

Accurate results on A1c blood sugar tests are crucial for patients to monitor and treat themselves accordingly. Researchers, whose work was published Feb 7, 2017, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, examined data from two large studies to determine if a difference in A1c levels in African American patients with sickle cell trait.  

In a survey of healthcare executives, many said they want several provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to stay in place if the law is repealed, while expressing concerns over how its elimination could affect their reimbursements from Medicare and Medicaid.