A study conducted by the University of California, San Francisco, estimates that a 10 percent decline in smoking in the U.S. would be followed by a $63 billion reduction in total healthcare costs for the following year.

St. David’s HealthCare announced plans to buy Forest Park Medical Center’s Austin hospital for $115 million, reports BizJournal.

Aetna’s filings with regulators “preserved our options to enter certain new geographies pending careful evaluation of marketplace conditions.” 

The healthcare industry is falling behind in the terms of technology. While almost every other industry is embracing the technological age, healthcare seems to be stuck in the 1990’s.

The healthcare analytics company has announced the launch of a free tool used to calculate the real cost of delaying the shift from public and private payer volume to value-based care and reimbursement.

With the average American living well past the age of 65, the chance of needing long-term care is about 52 percent for most people. Sadly, the cost of care is something that most people cannot afford.

Rockyview General Hospital is using biometric devices from biotricty Inc. to determine the effectiveness of monitoring heart rate variability to predict the onset of illness.

Exit letters date back to April 15, prior to UnitedHealth's exchange exits and before Humana released an earnings report which partially blamed a 46 percent drop in profits on exchange losses.