Strategic Planning

Population-based payments will make the new year interesting for those working in hospital revenue cycle. Add in the uncertainty surrounding ICD-10 implementation and financial managers have much to focus on in 2015.

Health system will cut its workforce of 90,500 by 1.7 percent amid some hefty losses incurred in the expansion.

The aging hospital's facilities and the drop in patient volume at Lakewood also factored into the decision to end its tenure as a hospital.

Annual JPMorgan Healthcare Conference leaves investors and providers more bullish about the state of the business than last year.

Strategic growth through consolidation, optimizing care by finding ways to become more efficient providers make experts' list of healthcare issues to watch in 2015.

Former Mercy Hospital exec charged with shoring up finances for struggling hospital.

Overall, healthcare leaders are optimistic about the future and are relying on a combination of mergers and acquisitions and organic growth to expand.

Merger creates one of the largest skilled pediatric home health companies in the country.

The hospital operator also upped its ownership stake in the services company.

Trinity Health is set to expand its risk-based care operations, announcing last week that it will partner with Heritage Provider Network to form accountable care networks linking Trinity’s 86 hospitals with the 37,000 physicians in league with Heritage.