Highmark Blue Shield’s senior medical director, Dr. Tim Law, spoke to the Journal about how the pandemic impacted Highmark as a payer and what the telemedicine space looks like for payers today. 

A Pittsburgh-based pharmaceutical company has acquired Hanover-based pain medicine manufacturer, Fathom Pharma. 

Penn State Health has consolidated several medical and surgical specialties into a newly renovated location on the campus of its Holy Spirit Medical Center in Camp Hill.

Mechanicsburg-based GI Supply, which makes specialty endoscopy and paracentesis products for gastroenterologists, colorectal surgeons and interventional radiologists, has been acquired by Laborie Medical Technologies Corp., completing a transaction that had been in the works for a few years. 

Highmark Health is working with a Pittsburgh-based health care technology startup to streamline member access to prescription drugs from specialty pharmacies. 

WellSpan Health announced that it is set to acquire a Carlisle-based primary care and internal medicine provider, expanding its access in Cumberland County. 

Drayer Physical Therapy Institute has opened an outpatient clinic in Ephrata borough at 108 N. Reading Road, Suite G. 

Apprenticeship programs are growing across the state to help students earn while they learn and provide employers with a stream of workers they need.  Thursday, Gov. Tom Wolf announced awards totaling more than $11 million for 26 apprenticeship programs for occupations in agriculture, manufacturing, health care, IT, education, human services, building trades and more.  “Apprenticeships ...

Harrisburg-based Keystone Human Services will promote Charles Sweeder to president and CEO after current president Charles Hooker III retires in January 2023. 

Pennsylvania’s elderly population is quickly expanding in what many call the “silver tsunami” -- that growing segment of the population is making senior communities of all kinds reevaluate their stock and giving construction firms specializing in the industry a lot of work to do.

UPMC has rolled out a new brain monitoring program at its UPMC Harrisburg and Memorial hospitals that it says will allow its clinicians to quicken patient triage. 

HACC, Central Pennsylvania's Community College, has added three certificate programs to meet the workforce needs of the expanding cannabis industry.

Camp Hill-based Progressive Dental Concepts LLC, which describes itself as the largest locally owned and community-focused general dentistry group serving central Pennsylvania, announced that Chris Kelliher has been named chief financial officer. 

Madden and Gilbert Physical Therapy, a six-clinic physical therapy practice in Dauphin, Cumberland and York counties has sold 70% of the company for $11.5 million. 

“Aging in place” has casually come to mean staying in your home as you move into old age.