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Department of Health and Human Services says plans lacking substantial coverage of hospital and physician services don't qualify as "minimum value" coverage.

Hospitals saw a 43 percent drop in adverse drug events, a 15 percent drop in hospital-acquired pressure ulcers and a 20 percent drop in urinary tract infections related to catheter use.

Conditions include keeping all the hospitals open 10 years -- with four of them as acute care facilities -- maintaining charity care and community benefit spending, participating in Medicaid and providing essential health and reproductive services.

Medicare Advantage reimbursement and regulatory changes are coming, along with new probes into risk adjustment practices that could lead to settlements and clawbacks.

The federal government is extending the exchange sign-up deadline, due to concerns about tax season confusion and subsidy mistakes for some 800,000 Americans.

While the new health insurance market is about as profitable as the pre-reform era for some large insurers, that is not the case for those like Assurant.

Healthcare workers should treat hospitalized measles patients with Vitamin A, according to a new recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and all providers should be prepared in advance for documentation.

The Food and Drug Administration and General Electric are recalling more than 5,000 MRI systems in the U.S. and urging providers to do thorough testing.

The bacterial outbreak at a Los Angeles hospital highlights shortcomings in the federal government's efforts to avert the most lethal hospital infections, which are becoming increasingly impervious to treatment.

Insurers with Medicare Advantage health plans are facing more public and government scrutiny over just how sick their senior members really are.