Richard Pizzi

Each year, 50 percent to 85 percent of community health center patients – or between 10 million and 17 million people – experience unmet legal needs, many of which negatively impact their health, according to a new study.

The Tenet Healthcare Corporation this week reported an increase in first quarter earnings of 7.2 percent over the first quarter of 2009.

More than 200 of California's 400 acute care hospitals have buildings that are in danger of collapse during an earthquake and must be replaced by 2013, according to a new report.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon signed a bill into law last week that requires health insurance companies to speed up claims payments to physicians, hospitals and other healthcare providers.

A new children's hospital under construction in Chicago is more than 50 percent complete and slated to open in 2012.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services revised its rating outlook to positive from stable on debt issued for UMass Memorial Medical Center, part of UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester, Mass.

National health expenditures grew in 2008 at the slowest pace in nearly 50 years yet still outpaced economic growth at large, according to a new report from the California HealthCare Foundation.

The cost for in-home healthcare has risen just 1.7 percent a year over the past five years, compared to 6.7 percent for assisted living facilities and 4.5 percent for a private room in a nursing home, according to a new survey.

St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan is poised to close for good at the end of April. But what will happen to its 3,500 employees when the hospital ceases to exist?

Overall healthcare prices increased 0.2 percent in March and were 2.9 percent higher than a year ago, according to data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.