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More than 90 percent of CFOs surveyed said they already have strategies in place to partner with other providers.

Linking heath information management staff with doctors helped cut a Mississippi hospital's delinquency rate from 40 to 13 percent.

House Republicans refused to advance the bill and invoked a rule requiring a three-fifths majority of House members to vote for the bill to continue to the floor.

Mental health clinics, psychologists and psychiatric hospitals were left out of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Program, and it's cost them.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Tuesday announced a new model of accountable care organization that asks participating healthcare providers to take on the highest level of risk with the possibility of higher returns than any other CMS program.

Daughters of Charity says it has "difficult decisions" ahead as terms placed by attorney general on the deal sink acquisition plans.

Lobbyists for the medical device makers handed out nearly $33 million in 2014 to politicians supporting bills to repeal the medical device tax.

Office of the Inspector General report said Medicare could have saved $4.1 billion between 2005 and 2010 if critical access hospitals were being paid for swing-bed skilled nursing services at the same rates as skilled nursing facilities.

The Advisory Board study found smaller campaigns have the added benefit of retaining staff, due to less burnout and lower turnover rates.

Pennsylvania's smaller Blue-licensed insurer is boasting of some notable results in its accountable care arrangements and is looking to bring similar contracts to small primary care practices.