Health Care

As states buckle in to begin implementing the Affordable Care Act, Massachusetts has a conceptual head start on the rest of the country, but a top Bay State health care official says comporting state law to comply with Obamacare presents its own unique challenges.

The head of a UMass Memorial Health Care affiliate has been named the new president of Worcester's...

Harrington HealthCare System is moving rehabilitation services at two locations to its new building in Charlton, the hospital announced.

Marlborough Hospital said it is now offering three-dimensional breast tomosynthesis for breast cancer screening at its Women's Imaging Center in Southborough.

As casino developers court residents in Milford, canvassing neighborhoods on foot, a similar effort is underway in Framingham for a proposed development with a starkly different purpose.

A one-year delay to a key provision of the Affordable Care Act will not dissuade Bay State employers from offering health insurance, according to the Patrick administration and the state's major business association, while a health care advocacy group is imploring Gov. Deval Patrick to preserve an existing state penalty on employers.

Until the middle of last week, some companies were facing a tough question of whether to offer...

Seven years ago, Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM) and its 5,000 member employers supported the groundbreaking health...

Saying that it has heard business' concerns regarding the complexity of reporting requirements and the amount of time to implement changes, the Obama administration said it's delaying a key part of the Affordable Care Act for another year.

Nurses at UMass Memorial Medical Center's University campus voted to ratify their three-year contract with hospital management on Friday, the nurses' union said, officially ending lengthy contract negotiations mired by a dispute over staffing levels.