Bethesda, MD – Annual family premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance rose an average of 3 percent to $18,412 this year, a modest increase at a time when workers’ wages (2.5%) and inflation (1.1%) also grew modestly, according to the benchmark Kaiser Family Foundation/Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) 2016 Employer Health Benefits Survey released today. Workers on average contribute $5,277 annually toward their family premiums.

Almost every state, along with the District of Columbia, saw a decrease in Medicare 30-day hospital readmission rates between 2010 and 2015, falling by 8 percent nationally.

Rochester, N.Y., September 14, 2016 – eHealth Technologies, the leading provider of clinically informed referral solutions, announced today that University of Virginia (UVA) Health System has expanded the eHealth Connect® Intelligent Health Record Aggregation platform services to help deliver timely clinically-organized out-of-network patient records for the Emily Couric Clinical Cancer Center.

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, will be leaving her position as president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation after serving since January 2003. 

Keeping patients educated and engaged in their own care has proven to lower admission rates and improve patient satisfaction. SONIFI Health has announced a partnership with St. Mary Medical Center to implement its Interactive Television Services in every patient room within the Apple Valley, California, medical center.

As a country that spends more than $3 trillion every year on healthcare, the U.S. continues to see overall spending increase, in part because chronic diseases become more and more prevalent. Twine Health has created a methodology that helps patients control these long-lasting conditions.

An unintended consequence of reducing Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments may put significant financial pressure on children’s hospitals, according to a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

According to the Associated Press, a fertility doctor in Indianapolis is suspected of using his own sperm to impregnate potentially dozens of women in the 1970s and beyond.