Nearly four out of five (78 percent) Medicare Advantage (MA) prescription drug plan enrollees didn’t change their plan between 2013 and 2014, which the Kaiser Family Foundation said raises questions about whether seniors have what they need to compare coverage.

As people across the U.S. continue to struggle with opioid addiction and communities face fatal overdoses, the Associated Press and the Center for Public Integrity released a two-part report detailing the many facets of the crisis.

NueHealth and GeneNews agreed to three-year partnership to offer patients access to early screening for colorectal, lung and prostate cancer.

IRVING, Texas – Sept. 19, 2016 – Lightbeam Health Solutions, Inc., a leader in end-to-end population health management solutions, announced today that Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) using Lightbeam technology delivered $83.8 million in savings to the 2015 Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP), fully 20 percent of all MSSP savings in 2015, according to the ACO Financial Report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

Healthcare data company Verscend Technologies has appointed Joe Morrissey as its new senior vice president of client services as it focuses on improving its offerings to customers.

Another U.S. hospital (and the first in the New England region), will be allowed to perform organ transplants on HIV-positive patients, according to the Yale Daily News. 

Hospital failures were at play when two patients escaped from the Western State Hospital mental health facility in Washington in April, the Associated Press reported. 

CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt faced tough questioning from Republican lawmakers about whether increased premiums for 2017 and the failure of ACA co-ops are signs the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges are failing.