Fairview Health Service and HealthEast Care System have announced their intention to merge, creating what is likely the largest health system in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area with a combined $5 billion in annual revenue.

Through four warehouses in Maine, the nonprofit group Partners for World Health collects unused medical equipment and supplies from U.S. hospitals and ship them to hospitals across the world. 

As negative reactions from healthcare leaders to the American Health Care Act (AHCA) have continued to come out, one Republican lawmaker supporting the Affordable Care Act (ACA) replacement hit back against what he called the “medical industrial complex.”

Ronald DePinho, MD, president of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, has announced he’ll be stepping down from the job he’s held since 2011, saying he “could have done a better job administratively, a better job listening, a better job communicating.”

It took until the wee hours of the morning, but Republicans advanced part of their replacement legislation for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) without making any changes to the original bill in the House Ways and Means Committee.

A larger practice doesn’t translate to better care for patients with multiple conditions, but having greater experience treating high-needs patients just might, according to a study published in the March issue of Health Affairs.

Lowering rates of readmission, especially in older patients, allows patients to recover fully while minimizing provider spending. A recent study published in the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) examined factors attributing to the rise of readmission rates after leaving post-acute care facilities.

Objecting to the American Health Care Act (ACHA) introduced by Republican leaders in the House, conservative lawmakers have pledged to introduce their own alternative to the Affordable Care Act (ACA).