Michigan’s health-insurance market remains one of the least competitive in the nation, according to an annual nationwide analysis by the American Medical Association.


Jim Haveman, 69, is overseeing a department that has a $15 billion budget and is at the ground level of changes coming under federal health care reform.

Giving up day-to-day duties as president and CEO of Mercy Health Partners in Muskegon allows Roger Spoelman to spend more time focusing on the regional operations for parent company Trinity Health.

The search committee seeking a new CEO for Saint Mary’s Health Care has a lot working it its favor that should attract strong candidates to the job.

Investors say once Michigan’s maturing life sciences industry can regularly generate success stories, the chances are that more venture capital will follow.

In an industry notorious for long — and expensive — development cycles, Tetra Discovery Partners LLC has a decided edge: a burn rate of almost zero, according to its founder.

A change in the administrative structure for the Grand Rapids SmartZone brings with it a greater emphasis on growing the region’s medical device sector.

Executives bill the planned move of Kalamazoo’s largest physician practice into Bronson Healthcare Group as smoothing the way for both to meet the new demands of a changing health care industry.

Priority Health, MiBiz and Crain's Detroit Business recognize the 2012 Michigan Healthiest Employers.

Self-funded health insurance plans used to be something that only larger employers considered, but increasingly, the big companies are not alone.

The Kalamazoo area’s largest group physician practice will become part of Bronson Healthcare Group.

In a two-day span this month, the consolidation wave that’s rolling over the health care industry in America swept into West Michigan, bringing with it the potential to re-shape the local marketplace.

Further action on transitioning Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan to a not-for-profit mutual insurer won’t come until after the November election, giving those who object to the current version of the legislation time to lobby for more changes.

KALAMAZOO – Privately held biotechnology firm Tolera Therapeutics Inc. said it has raised $5.5 million from Hopen Life Science Ventures, Triathlon Medical Ventures Partners and the SWMF Life Science Fund.

KALAMAZOO -- Medical device maker Stryker Corp. said Tuesday that it reached a deal to buy privately held Surpass Medical Ltd. for $100 million in cash, plus up to $35 million in milestone payments.