Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare has launched a new company focused on helping providers, payers, health systems and accountable care organizations navigate the shift from fee-for-service to value-based care.
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The House voted 419-6 to pass a bill repealing the ACA's "Cadillac tax" on lavish employer health plans.
Planned Parenthood removed its first physician leader in decades, Leana Wen, MD, after less than a year in the role, according to The New York Times.
A perspective published in The Lancet based on the views of medical sociologist Arthur Frank, MD, PhD, makes the case that the myth of "scarcity" encourages unnecessary healthcare consumption.
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., pledged July 17 to reject any donations over $200 from political action committees, lobbyists and executives of insurance and drug companies, and he called on fellow Democratic contenders to follow his lead.
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The House Ways and Means Committee on July 16 formed a healthcare task force for rural and underserved populations.
Funding for the VA healthcare program is a major sticking point in debt limit and spending level negotiations, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Kamala Harris, senator of California and Democratic presidential hopeful, released a plan July 16 to lower prescription drug prices.
It's time to challenge the negative healthcare narrative.
Marvel, which has released 23 films grossing more than $17 billion total, can teach other industries a thing or two about how to run a successful organization.