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Ascension Subsidiary Moves Beyond Healthcare
Process automation company Agilify, which has saved the health system 10% in costs for five straight years, launches for healthcare as well as other industries....
Anthem Completes Aspire Acquisition Early
The insurer aims to serve more patients outside the hospital setting. Indianapolis-based insurer Anthem Inc. announced Monday that it has completed its acquisition of community-based...

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Highest Hospital CEO Turnover is in These States
While the overall CEO turnover rate held steady in 2017, it remains among the highest rates calculated in the past three decades. The Hospital CEO...
Former Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove Joins Health IT Company's Board
The company's main product provides prescription decision support to clinicians. Former Cleveland Clinic CEO Delos M. "Toby" Cosgrove has joined the board of a Denver-based...
Backlash Mounts Against DOJ's ACA Abandonment
Some who have disagreed with each other in past ACA litigation argue the Trump administration's legal stance is 'exactly backward.' In the week since the...
Most Texans Want State To Expand Medicaid And Help Poor Get Health Care
Texas is 1 of the 17 states that have not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. This article first appeared June 14, 2018 on Kaiser...
Spectrum Health Integrates Telehealth, Patient Portal to Cut Costs
A Michigan health system's patient portal has a half million accounts, and its telemedicine service has doubled volume in the past 12 months. Spectrum Health's...
Conservatives make new push to repeal Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act should be repealed in August and replaced with a new system that lifts national consumer protections and gives control of health...
Bipartisan governors slam lawsuit seeking to end Obamacare protections
A group of nine bipartisan governors criticized the Trump administration Monday for backing a lawsuit that would eliminate Obamacare’s protections for people with pre-existing conditions....
LePage asks Maine's top court to overrule judge’s order to submit Medicaid plan
A state judge has ordered Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s administration to file paperwork to expand Medicaid as voters demanded despite an ongoing appeal, and...
The limits to Trump's Medicaid freedom for states
Ever since being elected, President Donald Trump has vowed to give states more flexibility to enact their own health care policies. Under him, the Centers for...
Medicare's big challenges threaten seniors and taxpayers alike
Medicare is in trouble. Again. The Medicare Trustees report the program’s Hospital Insurance trust fund is spending billions more than it takes in. In just eight...
Mass. House to debate sweeping health care bill
The Massachusetts House is preparing to tackle a major health care bill that calls for $450 million in assessments on some larger hospitals and insurers....
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