Stephanie Bouchard

Here's what's on the Physicians Foundation's annual Physicians Watch List.

The suit alleges that IPC submitted false claims to the federal healthcare programs by upcoding medical services.

In November, national employment rose by 203,000 with the healthcare sector among those with the strongest gains.

As healthcare executives look to the year ahead, one key to their growth strategies is pursuing merger and acquisition opportunities.

When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced the 2014 pay rates for physicians last week, the agency touted a final rule reflecting a shift to a greater emphasis on high-quality care and efficiency, but physician groups were unimpressed, instead keeping their focus on the sustainable growth rate issue.

As the government continues to crack down on fraud, healthcare providers are likely to soon become familiar -- if they aren't already -- with civil investigative demands. A former federal prosecutor offers tips to providers on how they can potentially narrow the scope of CIDs.

The healthcare industry will continue to face challenges in 2014, but the industry overall will be stable, said Fitch Ratings.

For the third year in a row, healthcare services company Cardinal Health took the top spot of Gartner's Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25.

The issue of price transparency has been bubbling beneath the surface for some years but it boiled up last winter and has stayed top-of-mind ever since.

Two regulations in particular had the attention of hospitals this year: the two-midnight rule and the final rule on disproportionate share hospital payments from Medicaid.