Richard Pizzi

American Medical Association members discussed how to enact permanent Medicare physician payment reform at the organization's semi-annual policy-making meeting Monday."Seniors and physic...

President-elect Barack Obama's plan to extend healthcare to uninsured Americans will be beneficial to hospitals, medical centers and hospital equipment makers, according to Moody's Investors Service....

Employment at the nation's hospitals rose 0.22 percent in October to a seasonally adjusted 4,686,500 people, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week.Employment at hospitals grew 10,...

Medicare and Medicaid payments to U.S. hospitals in 2007 fell $31.9 billion short of the cost of care provided to hospital patients insured by those programs, according to the latest American Hospital...

The Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration has signed a five-year, $44 million deal with Affiliated Computer Services, Inc., to administer a Third Party Liability program for the state's Medicai...

Fauquier Hospital in Warrenton, Va., recently opened an expanded emergency department, the last step in a $60 million project that featured renovations to 95 percent of the facility.The Richm...

The Minnesota branch of the Mayo Clinic is closing its clinical trials unit and immediately cutting 30 jobs.Mayo officials announced they would close the 100-person Mayo Clinical Trial Servic...

Voters in Dallas County, Texas, overwhelmingly approved a bond measure on Tuesday that would replace 54-year-old Parkland Memorial Hospital with a larger, modern facility.The $747 million bon...

Baystate Health, a healthcare network in western Massachusetts, is cutting 55 jobs and eliminating 120 vacant positions as a result of a $37 million projected budget shortfall.Baystate Health...

Charleston Memorial Hospital in Charleston, S.C. will close in the coming months, with most of its functions being absorbed by the Medical University of South Carolina Hospital.Patrick Cawley...