Acute Care

Each of the inpatient rehab facilities is operated by affiliates of HealthSouth Corp. through long-term net leases.

According to the department, 108 million Americans have no dental insurance and access to care can be difficult even for those who are covered.

Rates of potentially preventable readmissions declined across all conditions between 2010 and 2014, according to a MedPAC analysis of Medicare claims data.

Eyeing fast-growing urban and suburban markets where demand for health care services is outstripping supply, some health care systems are opening tiny, full-service hospitals with comprehensive emergency services but often fewer than a dozen inpatient beds.

A new report released today by healthcare nonprofit The Leapfrog Group, and analyzed by Castlight Health, said that only 47 percent of hospitals reporting in the 2015 Leapfrog Hospital Survey have the recommended coverage in place regarding intensivists -- highly specialized physicians who work in intensive care units.

Even when patients were grouped by characteristics such as age or severity of illness, hospitals differed significantly in inpatient costs, length of stay, and time spent in the intensive care unit.

Between 1997 and 2011, there was a nearly 50 percent reduction in emergency department mortality rates for adults in the United States, according to a new study published by Health Affairs.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia faces separate lawsuits accusing it of sending reimbursement money for emergency room care directly to patients -- and not to the hospital because it isn't part of the insurer's network. That's costing the hospitals money since patients don't always turn over the funds, according to the lawsuits, filed by Polk Medical Center in northwest Georgia and Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles

A new study offers surprising findings about end-of-life care.

Running its own health plan has allowed this Wisconsin system to design a homemade value-based reimbursement model.