Richard Pizzi

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has proposed 2010 payment rate updates for acute care and long-term care hospitals that will not please hospital officials.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has proposed adjustments to fiscal year 2010 payment rates for Medicare beneficiaries in nursing homes.

Lompoc Valley Medical Center in Santa Barbara County, Calif., intends to sell $4.06 million in insured revenue bonds to help fund a facility expansion project.

State budget crises are impacting healthcare in almost every community in the United States. Legislators and healthcare officials have been forced to make hard decisions about where and how much to cut, and the results aren’t often pretty. Here are some examples from diverse states.

The U.S. government will purchase an additional 13 million treatment courses of antiviral medication to help fight influenza, including the 2009 H1N1 flu virus.

The Mississippi State and School Employees Health Insurance Management Board has announced a one-year extension of its pharmacy benefit management contract with Catalyst Rx.

Healthcare reform efforts must rein in “runaway costs” to have an abiding impact on the U.S. economy, yet there is resistance to such reform because industry players make so much money from the current system.

Researchers studying the effectiveness of a new Medicaid program in West Virginia have concluded that the program reduces Medicaid services for at least 90 percent of the population that receives them.

New biological techniques might be able to speed recovery and shorten hospital stays for patients undergoing the 100,000-plus surgical procedures performed each day in the United States, says a new report.

A new study by the Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality indicates payments to hospitals dropped by as much as 13 percent for bariatric surgery patients between 2002 and 2006, due to fewer complications and fewer readmissions.