Jeff Lagasse

An extra $73 billion was spent between 2010 and 2012 on brand name medications, according to a new study by JAMA Internal Medicine, and the practice of therapeutic substitution could help to drive down those costs, a new study suggests.

iVantage Health Analytics on Monday named its top 100 critical access hospitals and the top 100 rural and community hospitals in the nation for their high scores in terms of patient satisfaction and financial stability.

In addition to faring well in terms of patient satisfaction, the hospitals are also operating on firm financial ground.

While may rural hospitals are closing, some facilities are excelling at care and finances alike.

Many hospitals are still not meeting national performance targets when it comes to the quality of maternity care, according to a new study from the Leapfrog Group.

Catholic hospitals and health systems are on the rise in the United States, but patients' rights watchdog MergerWatch is claiming that trend will limit women's ability to obtain reproductive health services.

Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan is poised to become the latest proton therapy center in the United States having recently scored a Proteus One Gantry system that precisely directs cancer-killing proton beams at tumors.

Just because it's hard to achieve a payer mix that better supports a health system's bottom line, it's not impossible.

A group of more than 2,000 physicians is calling for the creation of a publicly financed, single-payer national health program that would cover all Americans for all medically necessary care. The physicians voiced their support in a proposal published Thursday in the American Journal of Public Health.

Consultants hired by the health system that owns Nantucket Cottage Hospital in Massachusetts made several errors that led to lower wages being reported to Medicare for the hospital, which could potentially lead to a $160 million drop in federal Medicare payments over the next fiscal year for facilities across the state.