Richard Pizzi

Long-term care provider Kindred Healthcare has announced the opening of a new LTAC hospital in Springfield, Ill.

The American Hospital Association is encouraging Congress to extend several tax provisions necessary to hospital capital financing.

Overall U.S. healthcare prices increased slightly from October to November, rising 0.2 percent, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Underwriting discipline and an improved cost structure have led to an increased credit rating for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has posted the 2011 Medicare clinical laboratory fee schedule files on its website.

The U.S. healthcare sector continued to add workers in November, with employment increasing by approximately 19,200 jobs.

Online advertised vacancies for healthcare practitioners and technical occupations increased in November, while demand for healthcare support personnel remained steady.

Standard & Poor's has revised its rating outlook to negative from stable on the Daughters of Charity Health System, a six-hospital California health system with facilities in both San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Healthcare in the United States is becoming increasingly unaffordable, and one of the contributing factors may be the high salaries earned by healthcare employees.

In the midst of recession and widespread uncertainty about the implications of healthcare reform, hospitals across the United States were forced in 2010 to implement innovative purchasing strategies to help cut costs.