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Healthcare prices hard to find online Reuters Reuters Health – Consumers who search online for prices of common medical procedures may be disappointed by what they find, a U.S. study […]

CVS Health to acquire Aetna for $69 billion in year’s largest acquisition Reuters U.S. drugstore chain operator CVS Health Corp (CVS.N) said on Sunday it had agreed to acquire U.S. […]

Why closing hospitals and cutting staff won’t save NYC’s public hospital system City & State The devastating Medicaid and Medicare cuts that could be imposed as a result of the […]

In Trump health secretary pick, Dems have questions but hope AP News President Donald Trump’s pick for health secretary is a former pharmaceutical company executive who already has drawn heat […]

Heated And Deep-Pocketed Battle Erupts Over 340B Drug Discount Program Washington Post A 25-year-old federal drug discount program has grown so big and controversial that it faces a fight for […]

As Health Care Changes, Insurers, Hospitals and Drugstores Team Up New York Times They seem like odd couples: Aetna, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, is in talks to […]

As Health Care Changes, Insurers, Hospitals and Drugstores Team Up New York Times They seem like odd couples: Aetna, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, is in talks to […]

Nearly half of US cancer deaths blamed on unhealthy behavior AP News A new look at cancer in the U.S. finds that nearly half of cancer deaths are caused by […]

Federal uncertainty keeps New York’s health care agenda in limbo City & State Health care legislation in Albany during the 2018 session will be largely affected by decisions made in […]

White House: True cost of opioid epidemic tops $500 billion AP News The White House says the true cost of the opioid drug epidemic in 2015 was $504 billion, or […]