Prime Health Services customers have access to more than 50 hospitals in 12 states as part a new partnership with Tenet Healthcare Corp., Prime Health has announced.

The internet search giant joins other companies, all hoping to capitalize on the potential of Internet tools to help consumers manage their own health care.

Mental-health patients from Dayton and Fernley who were forced to obtain services at Silver Springs when their community mental health clinics closed, will have to move again.

Health care stocks mostly traded lower Tuesday, with shares of Express Scripts Inc. slipping after it agreed to sell its intravenous drug provider business.

A bipartisan plan for universal health care coverage would pay for itself and eventually could create modest budget surpluses, according to a congressional report released Thursday.