Richard Pizzi

The Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission has approved a 1.77 percent increase in the rates hospitals can charge their patients.

The Medicare trust fund will be exhausted by 2017, two years earlier than originally projected, according to the annual report by Medicare Trustees.

The American Hospital Association is urging the House Financial Services Committee to include tax-exempt hospital bonds in any legislation to help the municipal securities market.

The U.S. Comptroller General has announced the appointment of two new members and the reappointment of five existing members to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, or MedPAC.

The leadership of Willamette Falls Hospital in Oregon City, Ore., has approved an agreement to join Providence Health and Services, a not-for-profit health system with facilities in Alaska, Washington, Montana, Oregon and California.

Many uninsured American families who aren't covered by group health insurance through an employer can't afford to buy health insurance, according to a new study by the Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

The Mississippi state senate on Thursday approved a proposal to build a $151 million, 100-bed hospital in Olive Branch in a special session of the Legislature.

Employment in the U.S. healthcare sector grew by 17,000 jobs in April, although the national unemployment rate rose to 8.9 percent, according to recent data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services has signed a five-year, $84 million contract with a private vendor to manage the state's Medicaid program.

Bon Secours Health System Inc., one of the largest Catholic health systems in the country, has invested $1.6 million in a nonprofit that provides low-interest loans to help communities that lack access to traditional financial services.