Health and wellness

Gov. Paul LePage and state lawmakers are at odds about how to fund a voter-approved Medicaid expansion that was supposed to take effect on July 2.

Salem faces unanticipated costs after cyanotoxins were found in the drinking water supply.

Halifax Health cannot use bonds to finance the construction of its 95-bed hospital in Deltona, a Volusia County judge ruled this week, dealing a setback to the public health system's strategy to pay for the $105 million project.

While there have been many attempts to contain healthcare costs, bond specialist Randy Miller and Dr. Philip Romero of the University of Oregon discuss their “Health Insurance Revenue Bond” and how this new approach in prerefunding liability can contain costs. John Hallacy hosts.

The plan calls for up to $55 million of borrowing to fund 2015 state health and pension benefits.

After venting frustration over services that are not planned for ProMedica's new hospital in Adrian Township, Lenawee County commissioners Wednesday approved issuing bonds to finance the hospital's construction.

Erie County Medical Center wired $17 million to Erie County last week as part of a borrowing deal that enables the hospital to build a new emergency department.

Since the Great Recession, the tech sector in New York has added over 57,000 jobs.

Health care giant University of Pittsburgh Medical Center plans to spend $235 million in the Harrisburg, York and Lancaster areas in 2018. Much of it would go toward a new hospital in York, with some also spent at three other midstate hospitals.

Newport News' Industrial Development Authority on Friday approved issuing $50 million of revenue bonds on behalf of Riverside Healthcare Association so that the hospital group can fund $130 million of renovations and new projects at its facilities in Newport News and Gloucester and Essex counties.