Kelsey Brimmer

Patient Safety First has helped California hospitals avoid 3,576 deaths and more than $63 million in unnecessary hospital costs between 2009 and 2012.

The trend of providers owning health plans took a big step forward in New York last week when the state approved North Shore-LIJ Insurance Company's application for an insurance license.

Last week Community Health Systems announced it is acquiring Health Management Associates for approximately $7.6 billion.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced that hospitals will see a slight increase in Medicare payments in 2014.

A recent Consumer Reports analysis rating U.S. hospitals on surgical care has found that the biggest and most renowned hospitals aren't necessarily the best.

Job growth in the healthcare sector for the month of July was fairly stagnant, adding 8,300 jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday.

A program in use by 140 hospitals nationwide has the potential to improve the discharge process and prevent avoidable rehospitalizations, according to a new study published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

As healthcare delivery and reimbursement models transition to ensuring quality care versus quantity of care, some sectors of the healthcare industry will benefit more than others.

If the states not expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act stay with their decision, those state governments will collectively spend $1 billion more on uncompensated care in 2016 than they would have had they expanded Medicaid, says a recent RAND Corporation study.

Tenet Healthcare's acquisition of Vanguard Health Systems could be bad news for some not-for-profit hospitals, particularly smaller ones, because it increases competition.