Richard Pizzi

Two recent surveys by the Society of Actuaries suggest that more transparency within the U.S. healthcare system is the key to bending the cost curve downward.

CSI Financial Services, a provider of low-interest bank loans to patients, has secured agreements to provide loans to self-pay patients at three Midwest hospital systems.

The Hospital Corporation of America has entered into a letter of intent with Mercy Hospital in Miami, Fla., for the sale of the acute care facility to HCA.

The top fifty pharmaceutical companies in the world have some 550 projects in late-stage development, and a new report estimates that these projects have the potential to add more than $70 billion in revenues to the market by 2015.

Overall healthcare prices held steady from April through May, although they were 2.9 percent higher than a year ago, according to data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission's June 2010 Report to Congress, released Monday, emphasizes the need for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to be a more "innovative purchaser of healthcare."

The Tenet Healthcare Corporation has raised its outlook for 2010 adjusted earnings by $50 million to a new range of $1.035 billion to $1.1 billion. The company's prior outlook range was $985 million to $1.05 billion.

At its annual meeting this week in Chicago, the American Medical Association called for funding from all payers - both public and private - for residency training positions for physicians.

The U.S. healthcare industry can eliminate $3.6 trillion in healthcare waste over the next 10 years by addressing a series of operational inefficiencies, according to a new study by Thomson Reuters.

The United States is losing ground as the global leader in medical innovation and must pursue coordinated action at the highest levels of government to ensure U.S. competitiveness and create high-paying jobs, according to a new study.