Some 300 jobs will be eliminated at Springfield, Massachusetts-based Baystate Health, a decision the health system blamed in part of CMS's decision not to adjust one hospital’s mistakes that will cost facilities across the state millions in reduced Medicare reimbursements.

Anthem can expect a ruling on the antitrust case against its proposed $54 billion takeover of Cigna sometime in January 2017, past the end-of-year timeframe it had requested.

Possibly due to change brought about by the ACA, more small- and mid-sized companies are self-funding their healthcare plans, according to Kaiser Health News. 

Pathway Health, a post-acute consulting firm, and Virtual Health, a population health management technology provider, have entered into a partnership that will provide Pathway with strategic consulting services to improve technology and payment models.

When public figures act or speak differently than usual—or differently than anyone else around them—some people (and the media that cater to them) look for medical or mental-health related explanations. But the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has issued a reminder to its members: Don’t engage in such public analysis diagnostics when you don’t actually know the person in question. 

Here’s a roundup of the latest state healthcare news, including a deadly bacteria closing down a Maryland neonatal intensive care unit and why one state lawmaker in Missouri has been blocking efforts to create a prescription drug monitoring database.

Spending on healthcare throughout the U.S. grew 5.2 percent between June 2015 and June 2016, outpacing the 2.3 percent growth in the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), according to new economic reports from the Altarum Institute.

With enrollment in Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) increasing by 60 percent in the past five years, CMS is proposing changes to “modernize” the team-based home care services program for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries.