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ICU Medical, the San Clemente, Calif.-based producer of intravenous medical equipment, is weighing a sale that may fetch more than $1 billion, said people familiar with the matter. The shares rose to their highest closing price since first being sold to the public 21 years ago.
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DaVita HealthCare Partners rallied the most since 2009 after signing an agreement that was seen as setting a path for Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway to negotiate for a possible takeover.
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(Updated) The CMS released data showing U.S. hospitals charge widely varying amounts for the same services and also illustrating the significant variation in how much Medicare pays for those services.
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While physicians in general generated less net revenue for their affiliated hospitals last year, primary-care doctors generated more, on average, than other specialists, according to a survey of hospital chief financial officers conducted by Merritt Hawkins, an Irving, Texas-based physician...
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Professional medical societies don't often consider costs when they're developing their treatment guidelines for specific conditions, according to a new study.
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U.S. hospitals are wasting billions of dollars each year by having their staff use archaic communication technology like pagers.
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A recent conference call reveals the extent to which a pipeline of valuable political insight exists between Capitol Hill and Wall Street, one that ordinary Americans and investors do not enjoy.
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HHS' inspector general's office is launching an in-depth investigation into cases where Medicare hospice beneficiaries get inpatient care, following unusual billing patterns that surfaced during recent research on the $1.1 billion industry.
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As healthcare providers and analysts continue to digest more than 1,400 pages of the CMS' recent inpatient prospective payment proposed rule, they are analyzing how the agency would implement a new payment methodology for Medicare disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) payments next year.
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Officials from SEIU-United Healthcare Workers West downplayed any threat posed by the National Union of Healthcare Workers before defeating their upstart rival a second time for the right to represent the 45,000 healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente in California.
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