KEY TAKEAWAYS Love of their job keeps nurses at or nearing retirement in the workforce, but stressors from staff shortages may cause them to leave, a new study says. Study participants suggested a ...

Medicare payments to a host of medical providers providers will take a hit in 2023 when the Biden administration implements a nearly 4.5% cut in their reimbursements, a final rule released Tuesday ...

Washington state has been named the best state for nurses in a new study from WalletHub, a personal finance website that regularly conducts studies comparing states. WalletHub's report ranks all 50 ...

An estimated 50,000 people on Monday became newly eligible for ConnectorCare health insurance, which the state advertises as offering '$0 or low monthly premiums, low out-of-pocket costs, and no ...

Jack Resneck, president of the American Medical Association: "The House recognized that prior authorization is an insurance companies' practice that is overused, costly, opaque, burdensome to ...

The agency authorized Florida to purchase medicines directly from wholesalers in Canada, where prices are far cheaper. Pharmaceutical companies oppose the plan.

In the year since I started using the Oura Ring, the fitness-tracking wearable has served me several ways in my day-to-day life — but more than anything else, it’s a conversation starter. When others ...

1. Recovery and restructuring For healthcare in general, 2024 will be a year of recovery and rapid restructuring, says Donald Yealy, MD, chief medical officer, senior vice president of the health ...

Cigna (NYSE:CI) traded lower on Tuesday as Wells Fargo downgraded its shares while favoring rivals Elevance Health (ELV), UnitedHealth (UNH), and Humana (HUM), despite citing a more balanced outlook ...

Since the “Great Resignation” began, many healthcare organizations have been struggling to maintain a standard of care that doesn’t increase costs in a time of economic uncertainty. Just how bad is it ...

The standard of care is to turn or reposition patients who are at risk to develop pressure injuries every two hours, round the clock. Those risk factors – age, mobility/activity, poor perfusion and ...

As populations expand and age, the number of working-age adults with a long-term health condition or disability is on the rise. And the prognosis and opportunities available to these people can vary ...