Health Care

Missouri's largest retirement system for government workers is partnering with the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester to enhance the employee disability certification process.

Saint Vincent Medical Group announced the move of its primary care office in Auburn and expansions in Worcester and Northborough Wednesday.

Gov. Charlie Baker said Monday he has not yet decided whether he will sign off on $200 million in new employer fees he has linked to MassHealth reforms.

Aetna, the Hartford-based health insurer that has been searching for a new city to call home, announced Thursday that it will relocate its corporate headquarters to New York City by the end of 2018.

UMass Memorial Health Care failed to properly report several cases of substance-exposed births at its Worcester hospital within a required timeframe, according to the state auditor.

Participation in the Massachusetts health insurance exchange is still robust, but some counties in other parts of the U.S. are seeing plan options dwindle, the federal government said.

Worcester-based alcohol and drug treatment provider AdCare announced wellness programs for people in the early stages of addiction recovery.

Spending by Massachusetts women on prescription contraceptives dropped sharply under the federal health care law known as the Affordable Care Act, according to data scheduled to be released Monday by the state's Health Policy Commission.

A nurse was stabbed by a patient while working at at Harrington Hospital in Southbridge earlier this month, the latest in a string of attacks of healthcare workers while on the job.

The New England Recovery Center, an inpatient treatment center and subsidiary of Worcester-based Spectrum Health Systems, Inc., has signed a new insurance contract with Beacon Health Options.