Nashville, Tenn., and San Jose, Calif., had the lowest unemployment rate among large U.S. metropolitan areas in January, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Republican-led states are ramping up their efforts alongside President Donald Trump's administration to implement Medicaid changes including work requirements, block grants and drug testing, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Traverse City, Mich.-based Munson Medical Center and nurses represented by the Michigan Nurses Association have reached a tentative agreement.

A Massachusetts woman filed a lawsuit against Providence, R.I.-based Women & Infants Hospital in January, claiming the hospital stored one of her embryos without her knowledge for 13 years, reports The Providence Journal.

David Triebes, CEO of Samaritan Albany (Ore.) General Hospital, plans to retire at the end of June, according to an Albany Democrat-Herald report.

Here are seven lawsuits involving payers posted by Becker's Hospital Review since the first week of March:

Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services sees a new partnership with the University of Minnesota, also in Minneapolis, as an opportunity to cut medical expenses through new technologies and research, according to the Twin Cities Pioneer Press.

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care's CEO is steering financial improvements after years of operating losses and the abrupt resignation of the health insurer's former chief executive, according to the Boston Globe.

Medicaid spending in Missouri accounted for 17 percent of the state's revenue in 2009. In 2018, the state's Medicaid spending grew to 24 percent, and it's on track to equal 26 percent of revenue by 2023 if left untouched, according to the News Tribune.

Opioid use among Blue Shield of California members with noncancer pain fell 56 percent since 2014, the health insurer said March 18.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and its parent company, Stella, got a new senior vice president and chief analytics & information officer March 7: Shahid Alam.

David R. Lincoln, president and CEO of Tewksbury, Mass.-based Covenant Health, will retire April 26.

Albany, N.Y.-based St. Peter's Health Partners and United Concierge Medicine, a telemedicine provider, launched a program to improve medical care of individuals who have been sexually assaulted.

Signify Health, a healthcare technology company that provides in-home care and management services, acquired technology platform TAVHealth to enhance its social determinants of health initiatives.

UC San Francisco researchers designed a smartphone app that can measure an individual's heart rate through the phone's built-in camera and a photoplethysmography signal, which can detect blood volume changes, to flag individuals who may have diabetes.

As the use of EHRs has increased within health systems, some patients have expressed concern about privacy and accuracy issues, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation's January 2019 Health Tracking Poll.

A wider range of patients could benefit from transcatheter aortic valve replacement than previously thought, according to two studies published March 16 in The New England Journal of Medicine and cited by The New York Times.

Johnson & Johnson will test the Apple Watch's ability to perform early detection and diagnosis of atrial fibrillation, a type of irregular heartbeat that can act as a sign of stroke.

Here are 10 hospitals, health systems or healthcare organizations that posted job listings seeking chief medical information officers during the past month.

The CEO of Berkshire Hathaway sat down with the editor-in-chief of Yahoo Finance to discuss the healthcare joint venture backed by Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan, including its much-anticipated name, audacious goals and leader Atul Gawande, MD.