In spring 2017, as health insurers across the country were fleeing new health exchange markets due to mounting financial losses, Minnetonka-based Medica stayed the course. Despite talk at the time that markets under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) were so troubled that even having a monopoly could be a bad thing, Medica opted to remain as the only carrier selling coverage for 2018 on the health exchanges in Iowa and Nebraska.
A big investment at Yale New Haven Hospital could mean more jobs for the Elm City. An initiative that will bring hundreds of new jobs to Connecticut will be announced on Monday by state leaders.
A federal judge in Washington state has temporarily blocked the Trump administration's overhaul of the federal reproductive health care program known as Title X.
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, the only stand-alone pediatric hospital in Miami-Dade and one of the county’s top private employers, has laid off 135 employees or more than 3 percent of its workforce. The job cuts at Nicklaus come amid flagging patient admissions, reductions in insurer reimbursements and rising costs for drugs and other supplies — financial challenges reflected by workforce reductions at other hospitals in South Florida.
The health-care sector has been left behind by the 2019 stock-market rally. Stocks in that sector are down, in part, because of concerns about proposals by Bernie Sanders and other presidential candidates for radical changes to the U.S. health-care system.
Rhode Island's top hospital group Lifespan is launching a public campaign to fight Partners HealthCare's proposed acquisition of local rival Care New England, arguing the state should not allow some of its most important medical facilities to fall under out-of-state control.