Richard Pizzi

Overall U.S. healthcare prices remained relatively flat from June to July, rising only 0.3 percent, according to data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The University of Texas System Board of Regents has approved plans for a new state-of-the-art hospital at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

More than 900 nurses in Duluth, Minn., are being encouraged by union leaders to authorize a one-day strike at SMDC Medical Center over the issue of adequate staffing.

Magnet hospitals, which are recognized for better patient safety and outcomes, don't provide better working conditions for nurses than non-magnet hospitals, according to a new study.

As the demand for hospitalist physicians increases nationwide, Allegiance Health has decided to expand its own program by entering into an agreement with a hospitalist management company.

Baxter Regional Medical Center, a 268-bed tertiary care facility in Little Rock, Ark., has refinanced $25.8 million in Hospital Revenue Refunding Bonds.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued final regulations that will fully implement improvements to the Payment Error Rate Measurement (PERM) for Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

Employment in the U.S. healthcare sector jumped again in July, increasing by approximately 26,600 jobs. The industry has gained 231,000 jobs over the past year, although hospitals lost jobs for the third straight month.

U.S. healthcare system median ratios showed a "modest improvement" in fiscal 2009 across most of the rating spectrum, according to Standard & Poor's Ratings Services.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late last week issued a hospital inpatient and long-term care prospective payment system final rule for fiscal year 2011 that would decrease average inpatient payments by 0.4 percent.