The Federal Trade Commission has ruled in favor of the merger of Pinnacle Health System and Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, allowing the companies to form a healthcare giant, reports PennLive.

The healthcare analytics company has announced the launch of a free tool used to calculate the real cost of delaying the shift from public and private payer volume to value-based care and reimbursement.

A recent report from the British Medical Journal exposes a gender gap in the listing of authors in top tier medical research journals.

Gov. Jay Nixon has vetoed a $500,000 bill that would’ve gone to a health information exchange program because he believes it would have favored one vendor over another.

Comptroller General of the United States and head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), Gene L. Dodaro, has announced James S. Ferguson, Carolyn Petersen and Karen L. Caulil as the newest members on the Health Information Technology (HIT) Policy Committee. 

A report by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and MergerWatch found that one in six hospitals in the U.S. are operated in accordance with Catholic religious rules, leading to the reproductive health of women being left unattended.

Although healthcare fraud continues to be a major problem for the healthcare industry there is light at the end of the tunnel as 2016 is projected to have the lowest level of federal prosecutions for healthcare fraud since 1998, according report conducted by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC).

The CDC reported a third of adults between 18-64 didn't see a doctor in 2014 and 17 percent didn't have a regular clinic or physician.