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Two of California's largest health insurers are partnering to create a massive database of patient medical records.

The CMS has finalized a rule (PDF) that decreases inpatient prospective payment system payments by $756 million overall. Meanwhile, long-term-care hospitals will see payments increase by 1.1%, or approximately $62 million in fiscal 2015, which starts Oct. 1.

The study evaluated carfilzomib in combination with Celgene's lenalidomide and dexamethasone.

The pharmacy benefit manager has decided to choose formulations that provide equivalent benefit at lower cost.

ABT-414 is being developed to treat glioblastoma multiforme.

According to a recent survey, hospitalists said that the 2-midnight rule is negatively impacting patient care as well as patient finances.

Analysts who fear health spending is accelerating got plenty of evidence in Wall Street's second-quarter results to support their thesis. But so did folks who hope spending is still under control.

The Justice Department asked a full federal appeals court Friday to take up a case that has endangered subsidies helping millions of low- and middle-income people to afford their healthcare premiums under Obamacare.

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration took important steps to ensure that certain tests used by health care professionals to help diagnose and treat patients provide accurate, consistent and reliable results.

The study, published in the journal Cell, was conducted at the Whitehead Institute of Biomedical Research.

Jardiance, which was approved in Europe in May of this year, was late in coming because of certain issues raised by the FDA at Boerhringer's manufacturing plant.

In an ominous warning as fatalities mounted in West Africa from the worst known outbreak of the Ebola virus, the head of the World Health Organization said on Friday that the disease was moving faster than efforts to curb it, with potentially catastrophic consequences including a "high risk" that it will spread.

On July 30, 2 senators introduced a bill that would extend a Medicaid raise for primary-care physicians another 2 years through 2016 and make more clinicians eligible for the extra money.

CMS has announced that it will nearly double the number of candidates in its bundled payment program. As part of the Affordable Care Act, the program aims to reduce care costs and improve patients' quality of care by offering providers with an alternative to the traditional fee-for-service reimbursement model.

In a final rule (PDF) issued Thursday afternoon, HHS formally set an Oct. 1, 2015, compliance date for conversion to ICD-10 diagnostic and procedure codes, incorporating the absolute minimum delay imposed by Congress when it ordered HHS to roll back the conversion date previously set for Oct. 1, 2014.

HealthCare.gov, the federal health-exchange website plagued with glitches at its launch, has already cost $840 million to build, according to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) review of two task orders and one contract related to building the system.

The House passed a resolution Wednesday authorizing a lawsuit challenging President Barack Obama's constitutional authority to delay the employer mandate in the federal healthcare reform law. The measure was adopted on a 225-201 largely party-line vote.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the risk of the Ebola virus spreading to the United States remains low. Still, many US healthcare stakeholders are now taking steps to ensure that the disease does not spread to state-bound Americans. So far, the disease-which kills 90% of people who become infected with it-has infected more than 1,200 people in 3 West African countries and killed an estimated 700 of them.

While Incyte and Genentech announced partnership to study each of their immunooncology molecules in NSCLC, AstraZeneca and Kyowa Hakko Kirin signed a similar agreement to evaluate their candidate molecules in multiple solid tumors.

Dr Koss refused preoperative chemotherapy to avoid damaging her virulent cells, which could later be cultured and could likely provide therapeutic leads.

The authors observed that an artificial switch in cancer cells from an epithelial to a mesenchymal phenotype induced the expression of GLUT3, a protein that promotes cellular glucose uptake.

Molecular analysis is now underway to characterize subsets of patients who performed better or worse on either treatment.

Text messaging might just be the next best thing in patient engagement-at least according to the results of 1 organization's pilot program.

Even with insurers reluctant to pay, Sovaldi prescriptions have eclipsed those for all other hepatitis C pills combined in a matter of months, new data from IMS Health indicate. The promise of a real cure, with fewer nasty side effects, has prompted thousands to get treated.

A team of researchers published data Tuesday in the American Journal of Managed Care showing that prior authorization policies in Medicaid programs have significantly higher rates of severe mental illness in their prison populations.

The recommendation to the EMA came soon after Zydiga (idelalisib) was approved in the US.

Common misuse of the terms health plan and payer is making it difficult for the payer community to comply with the Health Plan Identifier (HPID) final rule, according to the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI).

Given the vast technology problems many state-based exchanges experienced during the first open-enrollment period, state officials there and elsewhere remain wary of running their own websites.

Although the state and federal health insurance exchanges have most recently taken the national spotlight, attention may soon turn to private health exchanges.