Anthem Medicare Advantage membership grew to more than 1 million beneficiaries in 2018, a 35 percent increase compared to the fourth quarter of 2017, according to Forbes contributor Bruce Japsen.
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The CDC estimates more than 176,600 Americans died from opioid-related overdoses between 2013-17 — and roughly 25 percent, or 47,600, of those deaths occured in 2017, according to U.S. News & World Report.
Lawmakers in New Mexico proposed legislation that would open its Medicaid program to paying customers, according to The Telegraph.
On Jan. 30, CMS issued new proposals for Medicare Advantage and Part D payment policies for 2020.
Chicago is expected to be colder than Mount Everest and Antarctica this week, according to The Hill, and area hospitals are gearing up to help keep people warm and safe during the icy weather.
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As a growing number of rural hospitals stop providing planned baby deliveries, Minnesota patients in small towns are struggling to access care, public radio station KNOW reports.
Between 2014 and 2017, average wait times for outpatient care improved for three of four specialties in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, while those at private sector hospitals remained the same, according to a study published by JAMA.
Massachusetts became the first and only state to ban ambulance diversions in 2009, and other locations have moved to stop the potentially harmful practice of temporarily closing a facility to incoming ambulances, but it still occurs in most of the nation's…
West Virginia has the highest rate of fatal opioid overdoses among U.S. states, with 49.6 per 100,000 individuals, according to data from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Americans are more likely to die from a drug overdose than in a car crash for the first time in U.S. history, according to a new report from the National Safety Council.