Anthony Brino

Office of the Inspector General report said Medicare could have saved $4.1 billion between 2005 and 2010 if critical access hospitals were being paid for swing-bed skilled nursing services at the same rates as skilled nursing facilities.

After a fractious price battle with Blue Shield, Sutter Health is offering more patients a direct option through its own health plan.

Theranos technology can take a drop of blood from the finger and screen for a spectrum of conditions and diseases at half the price of Medicare.

The infections come two weeks after UCLA's Ronald Reagan Medical Center announced that two patients who used the same kind of duodenoscope died after CRE infection.

Bill reduces funding for critical access hospitals treating uninsured patients from $5 million to $1 million.

Inpatient admissions increased 2.4 percent year-over-year across Tenet's 80 hospitals and 200 outpatient sites.

Suit claims that the SEIU tried to thwart the $843 million acquisition agreement with Prime Healthcare Services, by conspiring with rival takeover bidder Blue Wolf Capital Partners.

Bacteria caused 453,000 infections in 2011 and was associated with 29,000 deaths according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study.

Proposal brings falling payments for insurers, potentially disruptive options for health systems.

Conditions include keeping all the hospitals open 10 years -- with four of them as acute care facilities -- maintaining charity care and community benefit spending, participating in Medicaid and providing essential health and reproductive services.