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The study published in Diabetes Care showed that a relatively simple intervention reduced gestational diabetes 39% for women at risk.

More employers are requiring prior authorization and the use of select specialty pharmacies for high-cost drugs.

A study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society found that older women with breast cancer have a poor response to chemotherapy, while older patients with advanced colon cancer (both men and women) did well.

After months of waiting, reimbursement for the Prolaris test will begin effective October 15, 2015.

Aledade, launched by former national coordinator for health information technology Farzard Mostashari, MD, is looking to expand its footprint throughout the United States to another 7 states in 2016.

Although the Affordable Care Act has helped many uninsured Americans receive coverage over the last couple years, the health law is essentially underfunded by approximately $500 billion.

Research published in the Journal of Oncology Practice found that factors unrelated to the individual patient accounted for the majority of variation in the cost of radiation therapy for breast, prostate, and lung cancer patients.

The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 prevents questions about status from being asked, and does not require a woman to disclose her pregnancy in an interview.

There is a quiet revolution happening among health plans. Mothers and fathers who work for health insurance companies-and who had the support of a doula at the time of childbirth-are beginning to inquire about expanding benefits to include coverage for this evidence-based service.

Medicare and Medicaid billing fraud scams-upcoding and unbundling schemes, double and triple billing, phantom billing and illegal kickback schemes -cost the United States an estimated $100 billion annually, inflating the size of government, escalating healthcare costs and burdening taxpayers.

People who experience food insecurity not only use healthcare more, but they account for higher healthcare costs compared with people with the same income who are food secure.

According to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, outpatient process measures need a fair balance between measures for underuse and overuse of clinical services.

The use of systemic corticosteroid therapy could reduce mortality for hospitalized adults with community-acquired pneumonia, according to research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

A novel risk-stratification index can help avoid unnecessary colonoscopies in individuals at low-risk for developing colorectal cancer.

A Gallup survey found that only Texas still has 20% of adults who lack insurance. In 2013, 14 states had uninsured rates above 20%.

A collaborative research study has discovered the effective use of magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the noninvasive diagnosis and molecular characterization of brain tumors in children.

Johns Hopkins researchers discovered that the little things a hospital can do goes a long way for the patient experience.

States that are unable to accelerate their efforts to slow Medicaid spending will face long-term budget imbalances, according to a new report from Fitch Ratings.

An immunotherapy developed by Amgen and approved by the FDA for the treatment of acute lymhoblastic leukemia in December 2014 has now received coverage assurance from Medicare, following an initial rejection.

The move comes after Sanofi and Regeneron spent $67.5 million to move ahead of the main competitor in the FDA approval process.

Despite harsh measures imposed by the Eurogroup, a third bailout is arguably a better scenario from the perspective of access to healthcare in Greece than a potential exit from the Eurozone.

A recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey found 70% of Americans prefer that Medicare's benefit structure remain intact.

A patient's experience with hospital care and quality of integrated care delivery over time was related to quality of life 3 months after discharge from the hospital, according to a new study.

Researchers in Boston have started collecting blood samples from newborn infants with the intent to sequence their entire genome

Critics of Coke's financial support said its was not transparent until scholars forced its revelation, and that it's a gambit to steer attention away from the role of soda in the nation's epidemic of diabetes and obesity.

The approach for assessing hospital penalties under the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program might need to be reconsidered in order to achieve the intended goal of the program.

The top stories in managed care, including what providers really think about the use of quality metrics, readmission rates for Medicare patients, and preventing drug-resistant infections.

Access to workplace wellness programs has been on the rise, but employers and providers still face steep challenges that can prevent these programs from being worth the investment.

Policy makers who are creating initiatives to prevent the very costly and too frequent trips some patients take to the hospital may be examining a population that is actually smaller than they might realize.

The network, PEDSnet, combines big data from electronic health records with family engagement