Medicare payments to hospitals for care they provide on an outpatient basis would increase 2.1 percent under an White House Administration proposal highlighting a trend toward discouraging unnecessary admissions. Medicare, …
The boards of Beaumont Health System, Botsford Health Care and Oakwood Healthcare have unanimously approved an agreement to combine their operations into a new $4 billion health care organization. Under …
Although the Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance expansion has directly provided coverage to only about 4 percent of Americans, changes embedded in ACA could affect many more people, and not …
Like the plot from a “Godzilla” movie, two Western Pennsylvania behemoths, dominant health insurer Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield and its Allegheny Health Network hospital system, which it acquired in …
Every day is a battle for Dorothy Coggins, even with her daughter Patty by her side. But her bout isn’t only physical. It started in late April when Dorothy had …
Hospital administrators in Connecticut who have been involved in the unprecedented streak of mergers and consolidations often tout the financial benefits and efficiencies of such moves. But as the number …
Swedish Health System, one of Seattle’s largest health care providers, is slashing outpatient prices dramatically, but there’s no sign yet that San Francisco hospitals are likely to follow in its …
By mid-spring, UPMC East Hospital anticipates offering elective angioplasty, a heart vessel clearing procedure that mostly had been available at Pennsylvania hospitals with heart surgery capability. Dr. Suresh Mulukutla, director …
