Chelsey Ledue

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is visiting community health centers across the state this week to announce an agreement with the Missouri Hospital Association to provide healthcare to nearly 35,000 additional parents – at no increased cost to the state's taxpayers.

California physicians given financial incentives to improve the quality of medical care have begun to “embrace an array of changes important to advancing quality,” according to a recent RAND Corporation study.

Researchers from the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business say poor communication in U.S. hospitals has cost the nation $12 billion a year.

Through the first three quarters of 2008, a majority of Florida's largest health insurers saw a 25 percent increase in per-member, per-month costs for emergency room and out-of-area services.

Low-income Pennsylvanians living in personal care homes have received an increase in personal needs allowance from the state for the first time since 1993.

Surgical Care Affiliates, one of the country's largest providers of specialty surgical services, is teaming with Hawaii Pacific Health to build and operate a new outpatient surgery center in Honolulu.

The federal government may have delayed the implementation of new ICD-10 diagnosis codes and ANSI X12 version 5010 HIPAA transaction codes, but that doesn’t mean anyone should be breathing any easier.

Aetna is helping members make better informed decisions about their health with the addition of cost information for eight healthcare professions.

The Association for Healthcare Philanthropy opposes a proposal in President Barack Obama's budget that would impose new limits on charitable tax deductions.

Outpatient surgery visits increased 67 percent between 1996 and 2006 to 34.7 million a year, according the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC says reimbursement changes helped lead to the increase.