Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealth Group saw revenue and earnings from operations increase in the first quarter of fiscal year 2017 despite its widespread withdrawal from the ACA individual marketplace this year.
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Pittsburgh-based Magee-Womens Hospital's Pregnancy Recovery Center opened five locations in three counties to provide opioid dependency treatment for expectant mothers close to their homes.
West Virginia is looking to schools to help combat the opioid epidemic, according to a report on rt.com.
Virginia is seeing significant effects of the opioid epidemic, reports The Washington Post.
Republican Governor Rick Scott and state Attorney General Pam Bondi publicly endorsed two pieces of legislation Tuesday designed to combat the opioid epidemic in Florida, according to a report from WGCU.
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A significant portion of surgical patients continue using opioid painkillers more than three months after surgery. This pattern of prolonged use does not differ among major and minor surgical patients, suggesting pain related to surgery is not the lone driver…
Amy Bernstein, policy director at the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission, and Nevena Minor, a senior analyst at MACPAC, penned a Health Affairs blog post examining prescription opioid use by Medicaid beneficiaries and Medicaid prescription opioid spending.
Republican legislators floated legislation to expand North Carolina's Medicaid program, Winston-Salem Journal reports.
Adapt Pharma will donate 20,000 cartons — 40,000 doses — of the company's naloxone nasal spray Narcan to 4,726 universities across the nation to help curb the rates of opioid overdose deaths.