Net Health today announced that it will offer its hospice clients access to key pharmaceutical care and benefit management (PBM) services through a partnership with industry innovator Delta Care Rx. The Delta Care solution is integrated with Optima Hospice, Net Health's specialized hospice electronic health record (EHR) system...

Professors in the University of Iowa’s College of Pharmacy hope to allow access to their palliative care electives to students in other disciplines...

On Feb. 10, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published its draft CDC Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids. It represents a welcome, long overdue, and desperately needed change in direction from its disastrous 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain...

“Private equity is taking over eating disorder enterprises, hospital emergency rooms, autism treatment facilities, dialysis centers,” says Laura Katz Olson, distinguished professor of political science at Lehigh...

The pump under her skin provides fentanyl directly into her spinal cord 24 hours a day. The medication gives marginal relief to Kate Lester, 68, who suffers from chronic pain...

Many states have legalized medical or recreational marijuana over the last few years and Tennessee could be next...

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is retooling the embattled direct contracting payment demonstrations into an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) model. Direct contracting, initiated by the Trump Administration, has come under fire from lawmakers in recent weeks...

Medicare between 2010 and 2019 paid a total $6.6 billion to non-hospice providers for services provided to hospice beneficiaries, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG)...

Almost half of all U.S. healthcare workers felt defeated by the demands of their jobs during the pandemic, according to a poll published Thursday by Morning Consult and Axios, as workers struggled with burnout and severe Covid-imposed staffing shortages...