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Medicare coverage at 50 would be a major incentive to move the rest of the U.S. healthcare system into the prevention business, which is already occurring.

The federal health insurance program for the elderly and disabled, has come a long way since its creation in 1965 when nearly half of all seniors were uninsured. Now the program covers 55 million people, providing insurance to one in six Americans.

Though it provides a vital safety net, Medicaid faces five big challenges to providing good care and control costs into the future.

Capella Healthcare, a Franklin, Tennessee-based operator of hospitals and acute care centers, will be sold Medical Properties Trust, a Birmingham, Alabama-based real estate investment trust, for $900 million, the companies announced on Monday.

As patients, consumers, governments and the media are all following the money in healthcare, more scrutiny than ever is falling on executive compensation, especially for nonprofit systems and health insurers.

Admissions and emergency-room care rose in centers that were part of the experiment compared with results in those that weren't.

In this informal survey we're asking our provider audience to tell us who they use for their revenue cycle, and what they think of the tools.

The deal with Capella Healthcare will bring four hospitals located in central Tennessee into Saint Thomas Health.

Total Medicaid revenues for these MCOs soared 103 percent to $110.6 billion in 2014 from $54.6 billion in 2010, according to a study by Milliman.

A "sleeper" provision when Congress created Medicare in 1965 to cover healthcare for seniors, Medicaid now provides coverage to nearly one in four Americans, at an annual cost of more than $500 billion. Today, it is the workhorse of the U.S. health system, covering nearly half of all births, one-third of children and two-thirds of people in nursing homes.