Illinois is set to spend $80 million on providing mental health services for 11,000 prisoners at four facilities in the state. 

‘Ohana Health Plan, an insurance company in Honolulu that serves more than 56,000 people in Hawaii, has named Ed Fess medical director. ‘Ohana is a subsidiary of Tampa, Fla.-based WellCare Health Plans, which provides managed care services for government-sponsored healthcare programs like Medicaid and Medicare.

hysicians will be able to prescribe a medication to combat opioid addiction to more patients as part of several new policies HHS has announced in an effort to fight the rise in misuse and deaths tied to both prescription and illegal opioids.

UnitedHealthcare is suing a national dialysis company, claining American Renal Associates has been exploiting the insurance provider and its own poorer patients for money collected from dialysis treatment.

The Stark law, which prohibits physician referrals for Medicare services to entities with which they share a financial relationship, is due for an overhaul, according to a report released by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved several new weight loss interventions in the past year, but one in particular seems to be raising eyebrows among physicians.

RoundTable Healthcare Partners, a healthcare private equity firm based in Lake Forest, Ill., has finalized a deal to acquire Symmetry Surgical, a marketer of surgical instruments and specialty devices based in Nashville.

Athletes, coaches and staff traveling to Brazil as part of the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics will be monitored by researchers for potential exposure to the Zika virus.