Providers represented by the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) expect more of their business to come from risk-based products in 2019, with government revenues moving from Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) towards Medicare Advantage and shared risk accounting for a greater share of revenue in commercial settings.

The Massachusetts Health Policy Commission will review the impacts of a proposed merger between Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Burlington, Massachusetts-based Lahey Health and three other hospitals.

HHS is fighting the opioid crisis with data crunching. Started by HHS Chief Technology Officer Bruce Greenstein, the code-a-thon brought information technology professionals together to develop an impactful approach to reducing opioid overdoses and deaths.

Physicians who played a video game showing a young doctor treating severe trauma patients were better able to distinguish patients in need of higher level of care, according to a study published in The BMJ.

Large, for-profit hospital chains HCA, Tenet Healthcare and Community Health Systems (CHS) may come the biggest losers if recently announced mergers of nonprofit systems go through, as hundreds of hospitals will no longer be options for expansion through acquisition. 

Aurora, Colorado-based UCHealth has bought out the stake of a bankrupt co-operator to assume full ownership of two hospitals and 17 freestanding emergency departments (EDs).

The Affordable Care Act’s taxes on health insurance, high-cost health plans and medical devices would be delayed under a series of bills introduced by House Republicans, with the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) quickly coming out in support of suspending the device tax.

Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have published a study in Preventive Medicine that examined social media as an effective route in generating awareness about skin cancer.