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Rural safety-net hospitals seeing ED use increase faster than cities, report suggests

(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) Emergency department visits are growing at a faster pace in rural areas than

(By Nicholas Florko for STAT) WASHINGTON — “Most* patients pay between $0 and $5 per month” for Janssen’s drug Stelara,

(By Rob Stein for NPR) The powerful gene-editing technique called CRISPR has been in the news a lot. And not

(By Julie Appleby for Kaiser Health News) Workplace wellness programs have become an $8 billion industry in the U.S. But

Both employers and employees are embracing Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) as a valuable benefit when it comes to managing anticipated

(By Jackie Drees for Becker’s Hospital Review) Fifty-one percent of internal medicine specialists work in a practice that has implemented

According to a RAND study, primary care spending as a percentage of total spending in the Medicare program is low.

In Mary Beth Franklin’s column, she answers a financial adviser’s question on how to avoid paying a delayed enrollment penalty

(By Richard Harris for NPR) When Merdis Wells visited the diabetes clinic at the University Medical Center in New Orleans

According to a recent report from financial institution Primerica, it found 69 percent of middle-income Americans are concerned that they