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Former Birmingham Health Care Chief Financial Officer Terri McGuire Mollica diverted $11 million from the Birmingham clinic and Central Alabama Comprehensive Health, which was also under the fiscal control of BHC.

Greater Philadelphia's largest insurer ended 2014 with a healthy margin, if one lower than a year before, and a portfolio full of new products and ventures.

High-deductible health plans and soaring prices for a new generation of drug therapies making paying for care harder than ever.

Same-facility admissions at HCA's 165 hospitals increased 5.1 percent in the first quarter, same-facility equivalent admissions grew 6.8 percent, and same-facility emergency room visits increased 11.5 percent, while revenue per equivalent admission increased 1.6 percent.

Tennessee-based Iasis, which operates acute-care hospitals, said its revised 2014 revenue will be $2.5 billion, $30 million less than previously thought.

American healthcare does not need more technology, but leaders to think about systematic problems and how to create solutions for consumers, argues the CEO of Humana.

Though new Medicare LTAC regulations are challenging health systems, they're a big opportunity for giants in the long-term care business.

As it designs a merged network with academic and community care, Georgia's largest health system is lining up value-based payment deals.

The bill ends years of "doc fixes" to stop mandatory physician pay cuts from taking effect under a SGR formula for controlling costs, a measure most agreed never worked.

CMS programs that focus on alternative payment models such as accountable care organizations, which currently serve eight million people, and population health, are moving a fragmented system tied to fee-for-service into a future in which costs are controlled and care is improved.