HHS is taking member nominations for a new pain management task force that will work to establish best practices for prescribing pain medications and managing chronic and acute pain.
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The Harvey storm correlated with more births in the Houston area, according to a Houston Chronicle report.
Hurricane Harvey battered the east coast of Texas Friday evening as a Category 4 storm, creating storm surges and flooding comparable to Hurricane Katrina, in which 1,836 people were killed in 2005.
Several Texas hospitals have begun evacuating patients in preparation of Hurricane Harvey, the first category 3 hurricane to strike the U.S. in almost 12 years.
CareSource, a Dayton, Ohio-based managed care company, will sell ACA health plans next year in the last U.S. county without health coverage on the exchanges, reports The Hill.
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Many healthcare providers who work with military patients are skeptical of the feasibility of prescription drug monitoring programs, according to a study published in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
The Ohio Mayor's Alliance — a bipartisan coalition of 25 mayors from the state's largest municipalities — on Monday sent a letter to Republican Gov. John Kasich, urging him to take additional steps to fight the state's opioid epidemic, according…
Corpus Christi, Texas-based Driscoll Children's Hospital is evacuating all 10 babies in its neonatal intensive care unit Thursday night as Hurricane Harvey advances toward the coast, according to CBS DFW.
The following payers made headlines this week, beginning with the most recent.
Despite the increase in outpatient services — a national trend that suggests the number of inpatient hospitalizations will subsequently decline — New York City's public hospitals saw a sharp increase in inpatient psychiatric patients between 2009 and 2014, according to…