Susan Morse

Another Pioneer ACO participant, Beacon Health in Maine, is considering exiting the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services program after being hit with millions in penalties two years in a row.

Nine ACOs that partner with CHS generated $27 million in the Medicare Shared Savings Program.

Facing losses for two years in a row, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is considering pulling out of Pioneer ACO model, according to Dr. Robert A. Greene, executive vice president and chief population health management officer for the New Hampshire-based accountable care organization.

The merger consolidates technology and revenue cycle services of both companies to serve over 610 hospitals and 300 clinics in 46 states.

Under the threat of a potential lawsuit, the Catholic-affiliated Mercy Medical Center in Redding, California, on Thursday backed down from its decision to deny a woman's request for a postpartum tubal ligation, a sterilization procedure.

Narrow insurance networks are gaining traction across the United States, as insurers have limited options for offering plans at different price points, according to a report by the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

MeriTalk report claims 11 percent of people who receive government healthcare benefits are not actually eligible.

Home health workers employed by an agency are subject to the same minimum wage and overtime pay standards as those who perform similar services in a hospital, nursing home or other setting, according to an August 21 ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals.

A new checklist by the American Hospital Association is aimed at ensuring hospitals, and more urgently, physicians, are ready for a successful transition to ICD-10 on October 1.

The California Supreme Court has upheld a $5.7 million jury verdict against management of a southern California hospital and in favor of a doctor who claimed he was framed when someone planted a bag of illegal drugs and a loaded gun in his car.