Susan Morse

The total 3.05 percent rate is less than the total 3.55 percent CMS proposed in February.

For primary care physicians, the difference is $225,000 a year for men versus $192,000 for women. For specialists, it's $242,000 versus $173,000. However, the salaries of women increased by a greater percentage than their male counterparts.

While healthcare provider directories have always been hard to maintain, new regulations can mean costly fines if insurers fail to keep accurate, up-to-date information on the physicians who are in their health plans.

Starting April 1, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will pay an estimated 800 hospitals across 67 metro areas bundled payments for inpatient knee and hip surgeries.

UPMC, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, will increase minimum starting salaries for entry-level positions to $15 an hour by January 2021, according to UPMC.com.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will requiring states to provide mental health and substance abuse assistance as they would any other medical services for low-income adults and children.

Mergers and consolidations should be saving hospitals money from having benefits of scale, but a new report by PwC finds this isn't the case.

EmblemHealth and Northwell Health in New York have agreed to share risk in value-based contracts, EmblemHealth announced March 25.

Twenty physician organizations and other healthcare groups, including the American Medical Association, have submitted joint comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services praising the agency for some of its changes but say there is room for improvement in a proposed rule regarding Accountable Care Organizations in the Medicare Shared Savings Program.

Backlogs in processing Medicaid benefits have left thousands of beneficiaries without care, according to the Kansas Health Institute News Service.