Health Care

UMass Memorial Medical Center has been tapped as one of 32 medical centers worldwide to look at ways to improve costs and outcomes associated with total joint replacement.

For the second time in less than three months, UMass Memorial Health Care has received a credit downgrade by Moody's Investors Service. Moody's cited ongoing challenges in UMass's core operations, including declining admission volumes and “constrained” revenue growth, as reasons for the downgrade.

When Massachusetts passed its health care cost-containment law in 2012, policymakers acted under the logic that medical care should be treated like any other product, with customers able to shop around for the very best deal.

Large hospitals and health care systems in Massachusetts and beyond are exploring potential mergers with the intent to save money, but will smaller hospitals in Central Massachusetts follow that trend?

Hospitals are putting themselves and their growing volumes of data at risk by continuing to rely on outdated and inefficient practices to back up and archive information, according to a study by a trade group of technology professionals within the health care industry.

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The Massachusetts health care industry has entered an era of uncharted territory, now that the state can force providers to spend tens of thousands of their own money on information technology infrastructure to help them share patient records more easily.

With a federal extension now in place protecting existing health care coverage for 155,000 residents, officials tasked with fixing the state's much-maligned enrollment website are turning their attention to clearing the backlog of applications that must be processed manually to enroll new and existing subscribers in plans that comply with the Affordable Care Act.

A federal audit found errors in more than two-thirds of UMass Memorial Medical Center's (UMMMC) sampled Medicare claims from 2010 and 2011, resulting in nearly $1.65 million in overpayments to the health care system.

Tens of thousands of patients are expected to quickly take advantage of medical marijuana in Massachusetts, where the first dispensaries are on pace to open this summer and provisional licensees are all expected to make home deliveries, according to the state official in charge of the program's launch.