Richard Pizzi

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan reported a net loss of $144.9 million in 2008, which company officials blamed primarily on significant losses on individual policies.

Editorial from Editor Richard Pizzi

The Sisters of Charity Health System and University Hospitals plan to modify the existing 50/50 not-for-profit ownership structures of St. Vincent Charity Hospital in Cleveland and Mercy Medical Center in Canton, Ohio.

The healthcare industry, once thought to be recession-proof, is feeling the effects of the deepening economic crisis, and hospital employees are polishing their resumés as layoffs loom.

President Obama released $155 million authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for 126 new health centers to offer primary and preventive care services.

Hospital officials at Coral Springs Medical Center recently broke ground for a $21 million emergency department expansion.

A number of economic factors are driving unprecedented membership losses at most health insurance plans, according to a recent study.

President Barack Obama's first proposed budget for the Department of Veterans Affairs expands eligibility for healthcare to an additional 500,000 veterans over the next five years.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted this week to approve a fiscal year 2009 omnibus spending package for the Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies.

Huge inefficiencies in the U.S. healthcare system are harming the nation's ability to expand access to care, according to a new analysis of Medicare spending by researchers of the Dartmouth Atlas Project in the New England Journal of Medicine.