Health CareHow ChesPenn, a federal health clinic in Chester, is faring since Crozer Health's closure last yearThe nonprofit health clinic says it is Chester's only provider of primary care since Crozer Health went out of business. Obstetrics remain a challenge.Harold Brubaker Temple Health appointed Robert A. Winn to lead research arm at Fox Chase Cancer CenterHarold Brubaker Liberty Home Choices is closing and laying 615 people off from the Philadelphia home aid agency Harold Brubaker Geisinger Health wants relief from financial condition on merger into Risant Health in 2024Harold Brubaker Bill Gates’ nuclear company plans $450 million plant in Philly’s Bellwether District making radioactive cancer treatmentsHarold Brubaker AdvertisementCosts are spiking for specialty drugs. How are employers and insurers handling it? The trouble for employers centers on a group of drugs typically needed by about 2% of the plan members, but that accounts for more than half of pharmaceutical costs.Harold Brubaker Aetna agreed to pay $117.7 million in Medicare Advantage False Claims settlementThe federal government's settlement with Aetna followed a record $556 million settlement with Kaiser Permanente in January and a $172 million agreement with Cigna in 2023.Harold Brubaker The sale of the shuttered Springfield Hospital to local investors has been completedSpringfield is the last of the four former Crozer Health hospitals to be sold as part of the Prospect Medical Holdings bankruptcy.Harold Brubaker Jefferson Health will close four Einstein pediatric practices and move three others to True North PediatricsThe move could force thousands of low-income families to travel farther for pediatric care.Harold Brubaker Jefferson Health Plans had big gains in Medicare Advantage during open enrollment last yearJefferson remained in sixth place in Southeastern Pennsylvania behind leader Independence Blue Cross, Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Humana, and Cigna, despite strong growth.Harold Brubaker Pa. insurance regulators fined Aetna $550K for violations of mental health parity regulationsAn insurance department examination found that Aetna applied more stringent standards to autism therapy and opioid addiction treatment than to medical and surgical care.Harold Brubaker Most Philly-area health systems had improved financial results in first half of fiscal 2026Children's Hospital of Philadelphia had the highest operating profit margin in the region in the six months that ended Dec. 31.Harold Brubaker New Philadelphia-area cardiovascular surgery centers are pulling profitable procedures from hospitals and charging lessFour centers have opened or are in the final stages of approvals in Southeastern Pennsylvania after state lawmakers in 2022 broadly expanded the types of procedures allowed outside hospitals.Harold Brubaker Main Line Health reported an operating profit of $8.7 million in the first half of fiscal 2026The nonprofit reported strong gains in revenue and patient visits.Harold Brubaker Paul F. Engstrom, award-winning pioneer in cancer prevention and control at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has died at 89 He recruited other cancer experts to Fox Chase and established cutting-edge programs for cancer screening, smoking cessation, and education at hospitals, schools, and other organizations.Gary Miles Temple Health reported a $50.5 million operating loss in the first half of fiscal 2026Temple attributed some of the losses to costs related to the opening of Temple Women & Families Hospital in September.Harold Brubaker Penn Medicine had a $189 million operating profit in the first half of fiscal 2026The University of Pennsylvania Health System's operating gain climbed compared to the same period the year before, even after Penn put $43 million put into reserves for medical malpractice claims.Harold Brubaker A nearly 250-year-old hospital’s closure was announced on this week in Philly historyPhiladelphia General Hospital's lineage goes back to 1729, when it was established at 10th and Spruce as an almshouse.Tommy Rowan Johnson & Johnson will spend $1 billion on a cell therapy plant in Montgomery CountyThe J&J investment is the second major Big Pharma project announced in Pennsylvania in the last three weeks.Harold Brubaker After 20 years of growth, this Philadelphia-born company says it’s ready to help in the caregiver crisisAs the American population ages, medical alert devices can help to lower the risk of burnout for caregivers while allowing aging adults to maintain independence and privacy.Erica Lamberg, For The Inquirer See more storiesAdvertisement
How ChesPenn, a federal health clinic in Chester, is faring since Crozer Health's closure last yearThe nonprofit health clinic says it is Chester's only provider of primary care since Crozer Health went out of business. Obstetrics remain a challenge.Harold Brubaker
How ChesPenn, a federal health clinic in Chester, is faring since Crozer Health's closure last yearThe nonprofit health clinic says it is Chester's only provider of primary care since Crozer Health went out of business. Obstetrics remain a challenge.Harold Brubaker
Temple Health appointed Robert A. Winn to lead research arm at Fox Chase Cancer CenterHarold Brubaker
Temple Health appointed Robert A. Winn to lead research arm at Fox Chase Cancer CenterHarold Brubaker
Liberty Home Choices is closing and laying 615 people off from the Philadelphia home aid agency Harold Brubaker
Liberty Home Choices is closing and laying 615 people off from the Philadelphia home aid agency Harold Brubaker
Geisinger Health wants relief from financial condition on merger into Risant Health in 2024Harold Brubaker
Geisinger Health wants relief from financial condition on merger into Risant Health in 2024Harold Brubaker
Bill Gates’ nuclear company plans $450 million plant in Philly’s Bellwether District making radioactive cancer treatmentsHarold Brubaker
Bill Gates’ nuclear company plans $450 million plant in Philly’s Bellwether District making radioactive cancer treatmentsHarold Brubaker
Costs are spiking for specialty drugs. How are employers and insurers handling it? The trouble for employers centers on a group of drugs typically needed by about 2% of the plan members, but that accounts for more than half of pharmaceutical costs.Harold Brubaker
Costs are spiking for specialty drugs. How are employers and insurers handling it? The trouble for employers centers on a group of drugs typically needed by about 2% of the plan members, but that accounts for more than half of pharmaceutical costs.Harold Brubaker
Aetna agreed to pay $117.7 million in Medicare Advantage False Claims settlementThe federal government's settlement with Aetna followed a record $556 million settlement with Kaiser Permanente in January and a $172 million agreement with Cigna in 2023.Harold Brubaker
Aetna agreed to pay $117.7 million in Medicare Advantage False Claims settlementThe federal government's settlement with Aetna followed a record $556 million settlement with Kaiser Permanente in January and a $172 million agreement with Cigna in 2023.Harold Brubaker
The sale of the shuttered Springfield Hospital to local investors has been completedSpringfield is the last of the four former Crozer Health hospitals to be sold as part of the Prospect Medical Holdings bankruptcy.Harold Brubaker
The sale of the shuttered Springfield Hospital to local investors has been completedSpringfield is the last of the four former Crozer Health hospitals to be sold as part of the Prospect Medical Holdings bankruptcy.Harold Brubaker
Jefferson Health will close four Einstein pediatric practices and move three others to True North PediatricsThe move could force thousands of low-income families to travel farther for pediatric care.Harold Brubaker
Jefferson Health will close four Einstein pediatric practices and move three others to True North PediatricsThe move could force thousands of low-income families to travel farther for pediatric care.Harold Brubaker
Jefferson Health Plans had big gains in Medicare Advantage during open enrollment last yearJefferson remained in sixth place in Southeastern Pennsylvania behind leader Independence Blue Cross, Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Humana, and Cigna, despite strong growth.Harold Brubaker
Jefferson Health Plans had big gains in Medicare Advantage during open enrollment last yearJefferson remained in sixth place in Southeastern Pennsylvania behind leader Independence Blue Cross, Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Humana, and Cigna, despite strong growth.Harold Brubaker
Pa. insurance regulators fined Aetna $550K for violations of mental health parity regulationsAn insurance department examination found that Aetna applied more stringent standards to autism therapy and opioid addiction treatment than to medical and surgical care.Harold Brubaker
Pa. insurance regulators fined Aetna $550K for violations of mental health parity regulationsAn insurance department examination found that Aetna applied more stringent standards to autism therapy and opioid addiction treatment than to medical and surgical care.Harold Brubaker
Most Philly-area health systems had improved financial results in first half of fiscal 2026Children's Hospital of Philadelphia had the highest operating profit margin in the region in the six months that ended Dec. 31.Harold Brubaker
Most Philly-area health systems had improved financial results in first half of fiscal 2026Children's Hospital of Philadelphia had the highest operating profit margin in the region in the six months that ended Dec. 31.Harold Brubaker
New Philadelphia-area cardiovascular surgery centers are pulling profitable procedures from hospitals and charging lessFour centers have opened or are in the final stages of approvals in Southeastern Pennsylvania after state lawmakers in 2022 broadly expanded the types of procedures allowed outside hospitals.Harold Brubaker
New Philadelphia-area cardiovascular surgery centers are pulling profitable procedures from hospitals and charging lessFour centers have opened or are in the final stages of approvals in Southeastern Pennsylvania after state lawmakers in 2022 broadly expanded the types of procedures allowed outside hospitals.Harold Brubaker
Main Line Health reported an operating profit of $8.7 million in the first half of fiscal 2026The nonprofit reported strong gains in revenue and patient visits.Harold Brubaker
Main Line Health reported an operating profit of $8.7 million in the first half of fiscal 2026The nonprofit reported strong gains in revenue and patient visits.Harold Brubaker
Paul F. Engstrom, award-winning pioneer in cancer prevention and control at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has died at 89 He recruited other cancer experts to Fox Chase and established cutting-edge programs for cancer screening, smoking cessation, and education at hospitals, schools, and other organizations.Gary Miles
Paul F. Engstrom, award-winning pioneer in cancer prevention and control at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has died at 89 He recruited other cancer experts to Fox Chase and established cutting-edge programs for cancer screening, smoking cessation, and education at hospitals, schools, and other organizations.Gary Miles
Temple Health reported a $50.5 million operating loss in the first half of fiscal 2026Temple attributed some of the losses to costs related to the opening of Temple Women & Families Hospital in September.Harold Brubaker
Temple Health reported a $50.5 million operating loss in the first half of fiscal 2026Temple attributed some of the losses to costs related to the opening of Temple Women & Families Hospital in September.Harold Brubaker
Penn Medicine had a $189 million operating profit in the first half of fiscal 2026The University of Pennsylvania Health System's operating gain climbed compared to the same period the year before, even after Penn put $43 million put into reserves for medical malpractice claims.Harold Brubaker
Penn Medicine had a $189 million operating profit in the first half of fiscal 2026The University of Pennsylvania Health System's operating gain climbed compared to the same period the year before, even after Penn put $43 million put into reserves for medical malpractice claims.Harold Brubaker
A nearly 250-year-old hospital’s closure was announced on this week in Philly historyPhiladelphia General Hospital's lineage goes back to 1729, when it was established at 10th and Spruce as an almshouse.Tommy Rowan
A nearly 250-year-old hospital’s closure was announced on this week in Philly historyPhiladelphia General Hospital's lineage goes back to 1729, when it was established at 10th and Spruce as an almshouse.Tommy Rowan
Johnson & Johnson will spend $1 billion on a cell therapy plant in Montgomery CountyThe J&J investment is the second major Big Pharma project announced in Pennsylvania in the last three weeks.Harold Brubaker
Johnson & Johnson will spend $1 billion on a cell therapy plant in Montgomery CountyThe J&J investment is the second major Big Pharma project announced in Pennsylvania in the last three weeks.Harold Brubaker
After 20 years of growth, this Philadelphia-born company says it’s ready to help in the caregiver crisisAs the American population ages, medical alert devices can help to lower the risk of burnout for caregivers while allowing aging adults to maintain independence and privacy.Erica Lamberg, For The Inquirer
After 20 years of growth, this Philadelphia-born company says it’s ready to help in the caregiver crisisAs the American population ages, medical alert devices can help to lower the risk of burnout for caregivers while allowing aging adults to maintain independence and privacy.Erica Lamberg, For The Inquirer
