New York state is the first in the country to ban the sale of most flavored e-cigarettes.
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Cigna extended its individual healthcare exchange products for the 2020 plan year, the insurer said Sept. 18.
Stanford (Calif.) Health Care and its Lucile Packard Children's Hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., are no longer in network for Anthem members after negotiations to renew their contract failed.
California has joined a growing list of states taking measures to prevent the sales of flavored e-cigarettes, according to The Wall Street Journal.
California plans to launch a $20 million public awareness campaign next month regarding the dangers of vaping, NBC News reports.
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The University of Illinois at Chicago's colleges of medicine, nursing and pharmacy are each launching new clinical simulation centers to provide students with thousands of hours' worth of hands-on training.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sept. 15 that the state plans to issue an emergency regulation banning flavored e-cigarettes, according to NPR.
When compared to fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries, institutionalized UnitedHealthcare members with specialized Medicare Advantage coverage had lower emergency department use, according to a study published in The American Journal of Managed Care.
Here are five recent articles published by Becker's Hospital Review that look at newly released studies on emergency department use.
Premier explains how healthcare providers need data and analytics on targeted patient populations in order for risk-based payment models to be successful.