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Winning health systems this year include: AtlantiCare Health System in Atlantic City, New Jersey; Geisinger Health System in Danville, Pennsylvania; Presbyterian Healthcare Services in Albuquerque, New Mexico; St. Elizabeth Healthcare in Edgewood, Kentucky; and Trinity Mother Frances Hospitals and Clinics in Tyler, Texas.
Employer wellness programs can gather medical information from employees and spouses -- so long as financial incentives or penalties don't exceed 30 percent of the annual cost for an individual in the company's group health plan, according to final rules issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Monday.
St. David's HealthCare, a major provider in Central Texas, will invest more than $275 million in the region's healthcare infrastructure, the system has announced.
Valeant Pharmaceuticals on Monday said it will offer hospitals deeper discounts for the heart drugs Nitropress and Isuprel, with hospitals now eligible for rebates between 10 and 40 percent based on the volume of the drugs purchased over the course of one quarter.
The U.S. Supreme Court has sent a case on controversial contraception coverage back to the lower courts for a solution, based on an agreement between the federal government and the religiously-affiliated nonprofit organizations during oral arguments.
As hospitals and health systems invest heavily in patient engagement initiatives to deliver a better clinical experience -- and in many cases, to drive revenue -- sometimes just changing how medical professionals interact with patients can have the biggest impact.
Hospital merger and acquisition activity held steady in the first quarter of 2016, according to data from Irving Levin Associates, though the total dollar volume of these deals dropped 67 percent to $1.2 billion.
Despite an overall drop in doctor's visits, emergency visits and hospital care, children's healthcare spending rose in 2014, according to a new report by the Health Care Cost Institute that claims rising prices bridged the gap in utilization.
Congress and the VA came up with a fix: Veterans Choice, a $10 billion program. Veterans received a card that was supposed to allow them to see a non-VA doctor if they were either more than 40 miles away from a VA facility or they were going to have to wait longer than 30 days for a VA provider to see them. It sounds like a simple idea but it's not working.
The nation in the next few years faces many important decisions about health care -- most of which have little to do with the controversial federal health law. Here are five issues candidates should be discussing, but largely are not.