Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, said the insurer's $69 billion merger with CVS Health will succeed by keeping Americans healthier where they live, according to CBS This Morning.
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Humana's integrated clinical model, furthered by its recent bid for Louisville, Ky.-based Kindred Healthcare's home health arm, is reviving Humana's medical cost competitive advantage, according to a recent Leerink Partners analysis.
As the search continues for a missing CDC employee, a monetary reward is being offered for information about the case, according to The New York Times.
A team of researchers from Indiana University and the Regenstrief Institute, both based in Indianapolis, developed predictive models to identify primary care patients in need of social services.
Atlanta police are still looking for Dr. Timothy Cunningham, team lead for the CDC's division of population health, who was last seen Feb. 12, according to a report from ABC News.
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The number of Americans who died from an overdose related to synthetic opioids doubled in 2016, while overdose deaths related to other opioids fell by 3 percent, according to a report released Feb. 22.
Pensacola (Fla.) Naval Hospital, the oldest naval hospital in the U.S., will slowly restructure to an outpatient center. The transition will begin in July with the closure of its maternity ward, according to the Pensacola News Journal.
UnitedHealth Group plans to increasingly work with physicians, health systems and the government to boost Medicare bundled payment programs.
The steady rise in C-sections from 21 percent of births in 1996 to 32 percent today is a major quality and cost problem.
In the wake of mass shootings across the country, the U.S. health sector must work to prevent shootings as they would for any other contagious problem, argues Gary Slutkin, MD, founder and CEO of Cure Violence and professor of epidemiology and global…