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If quality of a hospital or system is made public and easier to understand, organizations have a market incentive to improve, says Leapfrog CEO.

HCA will sell its Oklahoma hospitals and terminate its lease of a children's hospital as other systems announced plans for an integrated network.

Affiliation will allow patients to get treatment closer to home, builds upon ongoing relationship between the two systems.

2015 survey found 15 percent of pediatric residents at Stanford had experienced, witnessed mistreatment of medical residents by patients or families.

Voter majorities support ensuring affordability for high-cost drugs for chronic conditions, health plans have enough doctors, hospitals in network.

Clinton's tone was often more conciliatory before her presidential campaign when she addressed medical companies and trade groups.

Under model, rates paid to a given provider are set so that all third parties pay the same price for services to particular provider.

FDA inspected 17 hospitals after events had been reported to other entities, found no corresponding reports filed with them.

On Tuesday, the NLRB rejected Prime's appeal of a 2014 regional NLRB ruling requiring the health system to pay employees the annual raises.

The study saw little difference in patient mortality, hospital readmissions within 30 days, lengths of stay or specialty consultant use among patients treated by the expanded PA group and those treated by the conventional group.