Mercy announced Tuesday it has teamed up with health insurance plan Centivo as its contract with Anthem Blue Cross is set to expire at the end of the year.
“COVID has changed so much from the first few years of the pandemic, when people got those first vaccines in 2021,” said Dr. Doug Pogue, president of BJC Medical Group.
About 60% of the nation’s IV supplies relied on production from Baxter, a medical supplier in North Carolina that was damaged by Hurricane Helene last month.
Missouri voters will have the chance to repeal the ban by voting for Amendment 3 in November.
The states want to bar the drug’s use after seven weeks of pregnancy instead of 10 and require three in-person doctor office visits instead of none.
Children are particularly at risk because they are ingesting adult-size doses, and often several at a time.
Employers may assume the PBMs are acting in their best interest, but they don’t have a legal obligation to do so.
As part of the consolidation effort, Planned Parenthood Great Rivers will be expanding telehealth services and hours at its remaining St. Louis clinics.
The 66,000-square-foot facility, located near Interstate 64 and Highway DD, opens Oct. 21.
Family Care Health Centers, a nonprofit community health care provider, will build a 27,000-square-foot clinic at the corner of South Grand Boulevard and Chippewa Street.
Nearly 40% of Missourians currently owe medical debt, report finds.
The St. Louis County-based company says the FTC wrongly blames it for driving up drug prices to consumers.
The lockboxes are big enough to store several medicine containers or a handgun. Only those with a key to its padlock can open it.
The aim, hospital officials say, is to support patients who choose to breastfeed but, for a variety of reasons, are unable to do so right after giving birth.
As the pregnant woman's contractions rolled in every two minutes, staff at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, dispatched an ambulance to send her elsewhere.
KVC Health system wants to convert a Webster Groves property into a hospital that would take in hundreds of children.
In June, 13 students arrived from the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine. They will spend the next two years in Jefferson County, shadowing doctors and finishing their medical degrees.
The state has consistently ranked among the worst for nursing home staffing levels.
After more than a year of contract negotiations and two strikes at one of the region's largest and busiest hospitals, nurses at St. Louis University Hospital approved a new contract.
Mercy received the state's stamp of approval, Monday, to build a $650 million hospital campus in Wentzville.
A St. Louis company is trying to prove that its tests could take on a greater role in the future of Alzheimer's research and treatment.
Medical schools and medical device companies use the life-like cadavers for training.
New tax filings also show former hospital CEO paid $8.8 million in year he stepped down as CEO.
Even an ally of the county executive said the move “confirms that there is some chicanery going on here.”
The most expensive was BJC HealthCare. Barnes-Jewish charged private insurance over three times what Medicare paid for the same services.
The seemingly mundane business of choosing a health benefit administrator has turned into a politicized pressure campaign.
After years of mounting losses, a Creve Coeur-based operator of senior living communities filed for bankruptcy this week, a move it blamed on lower resident numbers, staffing shortages and inflation.
Letters sent this week caught fertility patients by surprise, they say.
Workers rallied at three St. Louis-area nursing homes Tuesday, complaining that despite some progress last year with a new ownership group, the union has reached a standstill in contract talks.
Providers worry that pregnant women faced with life-threatening conditions are not getting appropriate care because of the state’s ban.
