New Jersey’s largest health-care system and its largest university announced the launch of a partnership that would create one of the biggest health-care systems in the U.S.
A tax that targets older, sicker workers and drives up health-care costs for 178 million Americans isn’t worth keeping.
Investors are betting on revamped versions of services like primary-care clinics and home health care, but feel no rush to exit.
China’s Tencent has struck a deal to provide WebMD’s health-care content to the more than 1 billion users on its WeChat social network.
For the first time in six years, the portion of U.S. workers offered health insurance through their employer has risen, a sign a tighter labor market is prompting businesses to offer more generous benefits.
The Trump administration has been rolling back sections of the Obama-era health law piece by piece, prompting states to fill the void, either to buttress or countermand changes from Washington. The result is that the country is increasingly returning to a pre-ACA landscape, where the coverage plans will differ widely across the country.
The company is building a network of primary care doctors for employers to offer as a separate benefit to employees alongside existing health-care coverage.
UnitedHealth Group raised its full-year earnings outlook as the company continued to see growth in health-care plan membership and premiums.
Pfizer is organizing itself into three different businesses as it continues to mull the future of its over-the-counter medicines unit.
Large national providers like United Healthcare and Blue Cross could provide nationwide menus for consumers.
Though mixed reality isn’t widespread in health-sciences programs, holograms that are set to mimic patient symptoms are emerging as a cost-effective training tool.
The cost of the sicker groups will drive up prices to the point that they will become less and less attractive to the healthier groups.
Amazon.com is buying online pharmacy PillPack giving the e-commerce giant the ability to ship prescriptions around the country, and overnight, making it a direct threat to the more than $400 billion pharmacy business.
General Electric will spin off its health-care business and unload its ownership in oil-services company Baker Hughes, betting that the once-sprawling conglomerate can reverse a painful slump by further shrinking.
In his first interview as the head of the CDC, Robert Redfield said his goals include combating the opioid epidemic, ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic in America and strengthening public-health systems in countries where epidemics are a risk.
Berkshire Hathaway, Amazon.com and JPMorgan Chase have appointed surgeon Atul Gawande as chief executive of their new partnership to address rising U.S. employee health-care costs.
A new association health plan rule may spur better alternatives.
A group of editorial workers is asking senior management to recognize the NewsGuild of New York as its collective-bargaining agent.
The Swiss pharmaceutical giant won’t face criminal proceedings over $1.2 million in paymentsit made to a company owned by President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer.
It was Gov. Scott who refused to expand Medicaid coverage for some 800,000 Floridians.