| Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare | Aetna to buy Humana in $37B deal | | | Aetna will spend $37 billion to buy rival Humana and become the latest health insurer bulking up on government business as the industry adjusts to the federal healthcare overhaul. |
| FDA clears $250,000 cystic fibrosis drug | | Thursday, July 02, 2015 6:30 PM | |
| | Federal regulators on Thursday approved a new combination drug treatment for the most common form of cystic fibrosis. But it comes at a steep price -- more than $250,000 for a year's treatment. |
| $237 million Tuomey judgment upheld by federal appeals court | | Thursday, July 02, 2015 5:45 PM | |
| | A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a $237 million False Claims Act verdict against Tuomey Healthcare System in Sumter, S.C. The sum is believed to be the largest ever levied against a community hospital and exceeds the hospital's annual... |
| Washington woman's measles death is first in U.S. since 2003 | | Thursday, July 02, 2015 5:00 PM | |
| | Washington state health officials say measles caused the death of a woman from the northwest part of the state in the spring -- the first measles death in the U.S. since 2003 and the first in Washington since 1990. |
| More healthy, young people enrolling in exchange plans | | Thursday, July 02, 2015 3:38 PM | |
| | Drug spending among new health exchange plan enrollees dropped during the first quarter of 2015 compared with the same period in 2014, according to a new report that seems to reject concerns that healthcare reform would drive up costs because of... |
| Healthcare employers added fewer jobs in June | | Thursday, July 02, 2015 3:00 PM | |
| | Ambulatory services added 22,600 jobs in June didn't create as many jobs as it did the past two months, according to the latest federal data. The industry as a whole added about 16% fewer jobs last month than in April and May, but healthcare job... |
| Centene Corp. scoops up Health Net for $6.8 billion | | Thursday, July 02, 2015 2:45 PM | |
| | Centene Corp. announced Thursday it would buy Health Net in a $6.8 billion deal. It's the latest consolidation in a frenzy that has giant Anthem proposing $54 billion for Cigna Corp. and national insurers Aetna, Humana and UnitedHealth Group... |
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