Thursday, 7 April 2016

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Wireless pacemaker from Medtronic is first to win OK from FDA
11:30:00 AM
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first pacemaker to do away with electrical wires that have long been a shortcoming of internal heart devices.


Major employers decry Sutter Health's tactics in dispute over prices
9:05:04 AM
Sutter Health, long accused of abusing its market power in California, is squaring off against major U.S. employers in a closely watched legal fight over health care competition and high prices.


Arkansas lawmakers advance hybrid Medicaid expansion
8:00:00 AM
Gov. Asa Hutchinson called the debate over Arkansas' hybrid Medicaid expansion a "watershed" moment on Wednesday, as lawmakers advanced his plan to keep and rework the program that provides subsidized health coverage to more than 250,000 people.


Pence, lawmakers face backlash over new Indiana abortion law
8:00:00 AM
Following on a campaign in which women called Gov. Mike Pence's office to tell him about their periods, activists plan a more traditional protest this weekend of a new law banning abortions sought because of genetic abnormalities that makes Indiana...


Going to Hackensack University Medical Center? There's an app for that
Wednesday, April 06, 2016 6:57 PM
Patients, visitors and staff at Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center will now be able to Uber to the hospital.


Former UnitedHealthcare CEO launches venture-backed insurer
Wednesday, April 06, 2016 5:00 PM
Another new health insurance startup is hitting the marketplace. Bright Health has raised $80 million from a handful of venture capital firms and has its sights set on the Affordable Care Act exchanges and, eventually, Medicare Advantage.


White House: $589M from Ebola to go to fight Zika virus
Wednesday, April 06, 2016 5:00 PM
Federal money left over from the largely successful fight against Ebola will now go to combating the growing threat of the Zika virus, the Obama administration announced Wednesday.


Will Kasich's new Ohio Medicaid makeover please conservatives?
Wednesday, April 06, 2016 4:00 PM
Ohio state officials want to drop adult Medicaid beneficiaries who don't pay into a health savings account, regardless of their income. Pundits are mixed on whether it will help Kasich garner more support from conservatives.


Florida settles lawsuit over pediatric Medicaid patients' access to care
Wednesday, April 06, 2016 2:22 PM
Florida health officials have agreed to settle a decadelong class action lawsuit alleging the state failed to provide children enrolled in its Medicaid program with enough medical and dental care.


Catholic Health Initiatives gets $725 million for sale of 52 medical offices
Wednesday, April 06, 2016 11:59 AM
Catholic Health Initiatives has agreed to sell 52 medical office buildings for $725 million to a Milwaukee-based real estate investment trust, Physicians Realty Trust.


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