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.
Public Health
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…
During a visit to China Monday, HHS Secretary Tom Price praised the nation for its help battling the opioid crisis in the U.S., calling the nation "an incredible partner," according to ABC News.
Republican Gov. Rick Snyder signed an executive directive Tuesday establishing a special opioid council to bolster Michigan's response to the opioid crisis.
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Many Americans (51 percent) have experienced back pain in the past 12 months, and of the 58% of those who sought treatment from a medical professional, 40 percent said they were recommended prescription painkillers, according to the Truven Health Analytics-NPR…
While drug overdose death rates among adolescents fell by 26 percent from 2007 to 2014, the rate began climbing in 2015, according to a report from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.
Giving patients buprenorphine to treat their opioid dependence in the emergency department is more cost-effective than referring them to a community treatment center or implementing a brief intervention, according a study published in the journal Addiction.
A study, published in JAMA Surgery, examined how commonly postoperative prescription opioids are unused and how they are stored or disposed of.
The city of Cincinnati on Aug. 15 filed a lawsuit against AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson Corp. for the companies' alleged failure to report and halt suspicious orders of opioids in the community.