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CMS Open Payments data for 2014 is now available and includes information on 11.4 million financial transactions attributed to over 600,000 physicians and more than 1100 teaching hospitals, totaling $6.49 billion.

The Swiss drug giant Novartis is looking at alternate pricing models for its heart failure drug Entresto, which is expected to gain FDA approval in August.

A week after JAMA released a report that found more than two-thirds of Americans age 25 years and older are overweight or obese, the American Academy of Pediatrics presented updated guidelines on preventing childhood obesity and recommendations for parents to help their children maintain a healthy weight.

Midas+ Solutions, a healthcare company specializing in quality management, asked C-level healthcare executives to define population health management.

Police officers in the United States are woefully untrained to approach individuals with behavioral health issues, according to a new analysis from Washington Post. In the first 6 months of 2015, police have shot and killed 123 people in the throes of mental or emotional crisis.

Heterogeneity in Medicaid coverage of the anti-viral agent sofosbuvir is rampant across the United States, with varying reimbursement criteria and lack of conformation to recommendations by professional infectious disease organizations.

A survey of about 18,000 residents training in internal medicine found that nearly three-fourths were unaware of the costs of the treatment that they prescribe for patients or the tests that they order.

Certain exchange benefit plans have recently begun to place all specialty medications for complex diseases on the highest drug formulary cost-sharing tier, according to an analysis from Avalere Health.

Researchers at the University of Michigan Medical School have developed a map of the United States highlighting significant variation in stroke care.

Shortly after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the government in King v. Burwell, President Barack Obama triumphantly claimed that "Affordable Care Act is here to stay." However, the truth is that GOP presidential hopefuls have no intention of letting the law stand.

Two new changes to CMS' ACO Investment Model will help practices in rural areas gain more access to the benefits of accountable care organizations.

The number of Medicare Advantage plans with $0 premiums has been on the decline since 2011, and dropped from 813 in 2014 to 726 in 2015, according to a recent analysis government data by HealthPocket.

This week the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the government in King v. Burwell, preserving access to healthcare subsidies for millions of Americans, and the high cost of cancer drug was in the spotlight.

The King v. Burwell decision to uphold subsidies on the federal marketplace is a win for patients who might have lost their mental health insurance coverage.

With the Supreme Court ruling in King v. Burwell keeping subsidies available to consumers on the federally facilitated marketplace, healthcare associations, insurers, health plans, and other stakeholders have been voicing their support and relief at the 6-3 ruling.

Although Kentucky and Arkansas went about expanding Medicaid coverage in 2 different ways, they shared common strategies that led to their success.

A pediatric long-term care facility in New York initiated an antibiotic-stewardship program to regulate the unnecessary prescribing of antibiotics.

Accelerated review of "me-too" products would increase market competition entailing a drug price competition, said experts at a panel discussion during a recent biotechnology meeting.

More than half of physicians in a nationwide survey are willing to see their patients over video, claiming the work-life balance to be the most common reason for the potential change in health system referrals.

The Core Quality Measures Collaborative Workgroup, initiated by AHIP and payer organizations, seeks to reduce, refine, and relate the healthcare delivery process.

The Supreme Court may have kept subsidies available to all Americans regardless of whether their state has set up its own exchange, but some people still refuse to purchase coverage, and they're perfectly happy remaining uninsured.

Researchers at the MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a blood test that can detect very early stages of pancreatic cancer before disease progression.

In a triumphant win for President Obama's Affordable Care Act and millions of Americans, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled against the plaintiffs in the case King v. Burwell and upheld the availability of subsidies for individuals on the federally facilitated marketplace.

The JAMA authors recommend that HHS and the US Department of Agriculture pay attention to DGAC's recommendations on fat intake, which do not include an upper limit on total fat consumption.

NICE has updated and redesigned its guideline to support primary care physicians to recognize the signs and symptoms of 37 different cancers and refer people for the right tests faster.

A new study summarizing network size by physician, not just hospital participation, determined that 41% of networks on the marketplaces can be considered small or x-small and contain just 25% or less of office-based physicians in the area.

Researchers of The Commonwealth Fund discovered that 95% of individuals with Medicaid coverage over the past year had a regular doctor and 55% of this population reported receiving excellent or very good care.

A clinical trial at the University of Alabama will be enrolling patients in the first-ever study of an open-label placebo in cancer.

Current adherence measures rely on lots of human interaction-something that is not scalable given the need. Avatars will become the norm in the near future.

A more selective use of biomarker testing for patients with breast cancer could save millions of dollars without compromising the care they receive, according to the results of a study published in The American Journal of Surgical Pathology.