| Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare | Ascension hit by higher expenses for the newly insured | | Thursday, November 12, 2015 5:29 PM | |
| | While Ascension Health, the largest not-for-profit health system in the U.S., is benefiting from Medicaid expansion, its operating margin dipped slightly in its most recent quarter as expenses rose faster than the revenue gains. |
| Alabama governor says he is 'looking' at Medicaid expansion | | Thursday, November 12, 2015 12:15 PM | |
| | The conservative Republican governor of a Deep South state, where the Affordable Care Act is often reviled in GOP circles, says his administration is mulling an expansion of the state's Medicaid program. |
| HUD seeks smoking ban in public housing | | Thursday, November 12, 2015 11:50 AM | |
| | The Department of Housing and Urban Development proposed a rule Thursday to require the more than 3,100 public housing agencies across the country to make their properties smoke-free. |
| Molina nabs another acquisition while bigger players try to merge | | Thursday, November 12, 2015 11:29 AM | |
| | Molina Healthcare is buying the Medicaid business of Columbia United Providers, a not-for-profit health insurer based in Washington state, the company said Thursday. It's the seventh acquisition in what has turned out to be a busy year for Molina. |
| Battle to curb obesity is failing, CDC reports | | Thursday, November 12, 2015 11:20 AM | |
| | An editorial published in JAMA this September saw a "glimmer of hope" that U.S. obesity (and diabetes) rates had leveled off. But results of a new survey show obesity continuing to creep upward with women having higher rates than men and... |
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