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The owners of two bankrupt hospitals in Hawaii have announced plans to convert both to non-profits - a reorganization plan that would save as much as $6 million a year and, in the words of one official, bring them closer to the communities they serve.

If Donald Berwick, MD, is confirmed as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, he and David Blumenthal, MD, the national coordinator for health IT, would be a "dream team" in pursuing a coherent national healthc

President Barack Obama spoke in support of his landmark health reform in Maine Thursday afternoon, touting a new course that, after "a year of debate and a century of trying," has become the law of the land.

President Barack Obama roused an enthusiastic crowd in support of his landmark health reform in Maine on Thursday, touting a new course that will "build on the system of private health insurance that we already have

Interview with James Lee, chief cinancial officer, Adventist HealthCare, Rockville, Md.

Commentary with Manish Choudhary, a principal in the Health Care Providers Practice at Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP, and Keedick Coulter, a senior manager in the Health Care Providers Practice at Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP.

Commentary by Niklaus Fincher, vice president of purchased services, sales & capital at VHA Inc.

Editorial by Richard Pizzi, Editor

The growing market power of hospitals and physicians to negotiate higher payment rates has gone largely unexamined, according to a recent study by the Center for Studying Health System Change.

Hospital inpatient and outpatient services encountered inflation rates around 8 percent in the past 12 months, which is 2 percent higher than the previous year, according to a new report.