Health Care

After being delayed several months due to discussions over rates, a pilot health insurance program for patients eligible for Medicare and MassHealth benefits will begin offering coverage Oct. 1.

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The inaugural report by the Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA) on the Massachusetts health care...

Two years after former UMass Memorial Medical Center CEO Dr. Walter Ettinger resigned, and following a months-long, nationwide search for a replacement, Patrick Muldoon assumed the role as the Worcester hospital's new leader last week.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute has won a five-year, $3 million federal grant toward development of a minimally invasive, robotic surgical approach to treating brain tumors, the school announced.

Active Rx, an Arizona-based franchise of senior wellness centers, opened its first New England location on Lyman Street in Westborough on Monday.

UMass Memorial Health Care and Attorney General Martha Coakley reached a settlement on fraud charges last month, in which the Worcester-based health care system agreed to pay the state $66,000 to settle allegations that it sent unpaid bills to a Worcester homeless shelter in order to collect reimbursements from the state.

Minuteman Health, the state's only member-governed health insurance plan, received its license to operate from the Massachusetts Division of Insurance (DOI) and had its premium rates approved so it can sell plans in 2014.

A California-based company will become the new overseer of “hospitalist services,” those handled by physicians who care for admitted patients at nine health care facilities in Massachusetts owned by Steward Health Care System. Those facilities include Nashoba Valley Medical Center in Ayer.

A national survey of 1,200 physicians indicates doctors are uncertain of the impacts of health care reform on their practices.