Fred Bazzoli

PLANO, TX – Not-for-profit hospitals that used to fear the mention of investor-owned chains knocking on their doors might have a different reaction to Legacy Hospital Partners Inc....

GRAND RAPIDS, MI  – In an effort to improve transparency of its prices, Spectrum Health last month began publicizing the average prices paid by major payers for 250 common procedures....

THERE ARE GOOD WAYS to restrain healthcare spending. And then there are ways that are you don’t even dare mention, not in polite company. This column could be construed as coming...

Hospital executives are exacting some revenge on payers that they perceive as being difficult to work with. Responses from 113 hospital executives, representing about 500 hospit...

Moving hospitals to a value-based payment system won't be a slam-dunk, according to testimony presented Thursday in a Senate Finance Committee roundtable meeting. According to a repor...

Congressional budget committee leaders are under pressure to reject budget cuts in Medicare and Medicaid expenditures proposed by the Bush administration in its fiscal year 2009 budget plan and overtu...

A large financial services company that's playing a role in electronic healthcare transactions is taking on a new name and hoping to become a one-stop destination for individuals navigating the nation...

The American Medical Association continues to come out swinging against the latest step in the consolidation in the health insurance market. The Chicago-based profes...

A large medical device and equipment trade organization, as well as a two large manufacturers of supplies, have voiced qualified support for a law that would disclose companies' payments to physicians...

Health expenditures are still rising far faster than the rate of inflation, and that rate of increase is expected to remain steady for the next nine years, according to recent estimates by the federal...