WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are continuing to ratchet up the pressure on specialty hospitals, requiring them to improve their ability to treat patients with emergen...
Changes in Medicare contained in a massive proposed federal rule will result in nearly $25 billion in reductions in hospital payments over five years, a national advocacy group is charging....
HealthSouth Corp. continued its efforts to shed extraneous lines Thursday, announcing that it had entered a definitive agreement to sell its diagnostic division. The sale, to Th...
Two large mergers of healthcare insurers were criticized this week, as healthcare provider organizations and others questioned the effect that diminished competition would have on prices and services....
Standard business rules have been released by a collaborative organization to facilitate the data exchange process between providers and insurers. The rules were...