Beth Jones Sanborn
The Federal Trade Commission announced it is joining forces with the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office to block the merger of Penn State Hershey Medical Center with the PinnacleHealth System.
New Jersey's 63 nonprofit hospitals are facing millions in new municipal fees called "Community Service Contributions" each year if bipartisan legislation co-sponsored and just introduced by State Sens. Robert Singer, Steve Sweeney and Joseph Vitale becomes law.
The Justice Department raked in more than $3.5 billion in 2015 in settlements and judgements from civil cases under the False Claims Act, including $1.9 billion in healthcare fraud settlements.
Intermountain Healthcare Chief Executive Officer Charles W. Sorenson will retire in October 2016, the Utah-based system announced on Monday, after spending 17 years as an executive for the celebrated healthcare provider.
Healthcare juggernaut Kaiser Permanente announced Friday they have inked a deal to acquire the Seattle-based Group Health Cooperative in a deal that will expand Kaiser's reach by roughly 509,000 members and add an entirely new region of coverage.
Ten former employees of Progressive Counseling Services LLC, which is based in Virginia Beach, have been convicted and sentenced for their roles in a scheme to defraud the state's Medicaid program by submitting fake claims for mental health services, according to the Norfolk Division of the FBI.
One in three family physicians are actively pursuing a move to value-based payment and an additional 19 percent are developing the capabilities for it, a new study sponsored by Humana and conducted by the American Academy of Family Physicians has found.
With just two weeks left in 2015's open enrollment period, close to 395 thousand consumers either signed up for or renewed health insurance coverage during week four November 22-28, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
CMS said by the end of next year, 85 percent of all traditional Medicare payments to quality or value and 30 percent of traditional Medicare payments should be tied to alternative payment models.
Fidelity study found doctors are also confused about how to invest and many don't have the time.