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Recent rankings by Healthgrades and Truven claim to list the best hospitals in the country for measures such as quality, safety, patient experience and financial management, yet only one made all four.

Recent purchase of MedExpress gives major boost to insurer's business for walk-in, low-acuity treatments and well as health and wellness services.

CEO Ram Raju wants to grow the health system's patient base to 2 million people and double the enrollment of its Metroplus health plan.

For outpatients who receive care on both Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, the challenge will billing under both ICD-9 and ICD-10 diagnostic coding vocabularies.

Map and table shows the state-level incentive totals for meaningful use incentives from January 2011 to February 2015.

Facing a $170 million budget shortfall, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy and other lawmakers are floating a raft of ideas to save money, including an increase in the state hospital tax, Medicaid funding cuts, limits on hospital tax credits and a new way for municipalities to tax hospital property.

The integration moves the health systems away from fee-for-service to care that’s value based, eliminating unnecessary costs.

The agency had argued that the $195 million takeover violated federal antitrust laws and greatly reduced healthcare competition in the southwest Georgia.

Importance chief financial officers are placing on investments represents a major shift in the past 10 years, experts say.

Maryland hospital has turned heads in the industry for its approach to revenue cycle and has consistently hit high benchmarks in patient access, revenue integrity, claims adjudication and management.