Norfolk, Va.-based Sentara will cease services at Sentara Kitty Hawk (N.C.) on Dec. 15.
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Only 21 percent of consumers receiving coverage through their employer use their health plan's member portal regularly, according to a recent HealthMine survey.
Becker's Hospital Review reported these 10 contract resolutions and dissolutions between payers and providers since Oct. 3, beginning with the most recent.
Tower Health in West Reading, Pa. — formerly Reading Health System — and Independence Blue Cross inked a three-year contract, effective immediately.
Eastside Health Alliance, a joint venture created by Kirkland, Wash.-based EvergreenHealth and Overlake Medical Center in Bellevue, Wash., rolled out an accountable care organization with Cigna, according to Kirkland Reporter.
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Forty-three percent of Americans buying individual health insurance purchase coverage outside of the ACA exchanges or have incomes above the threshold determining who gets subsidies to offset premium hikes, Kaiser Health News reports.
Two Boston-based Iora Health primary care practices joined Humana's Medicare Advantage network in Arizona.
The HealthCare Executive Group released its list of the top 10 challenges the healthcare industry will face in 2018 during the group's annual forum in Nashville, Tenn., Oct. 3.
Everett, Pa.-based UPMC Bedford Memorial will no longer offer inpatient dialysis services beginning later in October, according to the Altoona Mirror.
Suicide rates in rural counties were consistently higher than those in metropolitan counties from 2001 through 2015, according to the CDC' most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.