Health Care

A state agency has for the first time reported a statewide relative price designed to account for health care cost variation among providers.

Recovery Centers of America said it has signed a contract with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts to treat its members at its Westminster facility.

In an effort to curb serious illness and disease associated with the use of needle drugs, physicians from the Massachusetts Medical Society will lobby state and federal policymakers to pilot a state-run safe injection site program in Massachusetts.

With Reliant's potential sale – its board is voting on May 9 – fears over the ceding of local control need to be balanced with the realities of a changing healthcare industry: costs must come down and providers must find further efficiencies.

Richard Siegrist, a health care and technology entrepreneur, will help bring UMass Memorial Health Care to new heights as its new chairman.

The largest independent physician practice in Central Massachusetts – Reliant Medical Group in Worcester – will decide May 9 whether to be acquired by a division of $185-billion healthcare conglomerate UnitedHealth Group.

One of Worcester's longest-serving community health leaders was appointed to the board of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation.

House Democrats on Tuesday rejected a proposal to limit cost growth in MassHealth, before passing a $40 billion budget.

Massachusetts is the recipient of an $11.7-million grant to bolster the public health response to the opioid epidemic.

Massachusetts is the second best place for children's health care, according to a study released by WalletHub this week.