Jordan Rau, Kaiser Health News

The new guidelines discourage regulators from levying fines and aligns with Trump's promise to reduce bureaucracy, regulation and government intervention in business.

Despite the collapse of the latest Senate effort to repeal the ACA, Republicans are still keen on shrinking the amount of Medicaid money Washington sends to states.

Medicare is punishing 2,573 hospitals starting in October by as much as 3 percent a year according to federal records released Wednesday.

Sixty-one percent of the public (up 6 points from June) said they did not like the GOP health care effort, now undergoing a revised push in the Senate.

A subset of Medicare Advantage plans are designed for people who require at least 90 days of skilled services from nursing homes or long-term care institutions.

Several million children won't meet Senate's new highly restrictive definition of "blind and disabled" under new Medicaid guidelines.

Of the facilities with reported violations prior to 2014, 52 percent slid back into dangerous care according to a Kaiser Health News analysis of federal health inspection data.

The bacterial outbreak at a Los Angeles hospital highlights shortcomings in the federal government's efforts to avert the most lethal hospital infections, which are becoming increasingly impervious to treatment.

Healthcare systems experimenting with a new way of being paid by Medicare would have three extra years before they could be punished for poor performance, the federal government proposed Monday.

Many Medicare beneficiaries treated at primarily rural "critical access" hospitals end up paying between two and six times more for outpatient services than do patients at other hospitals, according to a report released Wednesday by the HHS inspector general.