Researchers from the University of British Columbia (UBC) and the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Switzerland have developed a small patch capable of measuring drug levels without drawing any blood.

Dimensions Health Systems President and CEO Neil Moore told the Washington Post that a “sprinkling of little hospitals” isn’t what the future of healthcare will look like.

Hours after the federal government filed an antitrust lawsuit against Humana’s proposed sale to Aetna, Humana announced it wouldn’t offer plans on Affordable Care Act exchanges in several states 2017.

In what the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) calls its largest single criminal healthcare fraud case, three people have been arrested and charged with running a $1 billion Medicare fraud and money laundering scheme involving multiple providers based in and around Miami.

The antitrust lawsuits against Aetna’s acquisition of Humana and Anthem’s takeover of Cigna drew support from the American Medical Association (AMA) and American Hospital Association (AHA), while the largest health insurer trade group argued the deals would be beneficial to consumers. 

Unionized nurses at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital have ratified a new three-year labor contract, avoiding what would have been the largest nurses strike in Massachusetts history.

Antitrust lawsuits have been filed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in an effort to block Anthem’s $48 billion acquisition of Cigna and Aetna’s $37 takeover of Humana.

A new report from the Commonwealth Fund found that while most insurers didn’t turn a profit in the first year of the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges, most of those reporting losses had been unprofitable the year prior to open enrollment.