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Five years ago, ProMedica launched a campaign to address nutrition problems after finding the system's hospitals and services were being used to treat conditions associated with malnutrition.
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Premier's $760 million IPO—priced above the upper end of its expected range and trading strong out of the gate—shows investor confidence in its diversified array of services and expectations under healthcare reform.
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The rise of electronic cigarettes has triggered a sharp debate over whether the devices can play a role in helping the nation's estimated 44 million adult smokers kick their habit.
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The long slump in healthcare spending, whose growth slowed as the economy plunged into recession and never recovered, may be about to end.
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In this year's Modern Healthcare Design Awards program, it seems that more than ever, flexibility was on the minds of architects and their provider clients.
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As health system Dignity Health prepares for the nation's historic expansion of health insurance, its executives are debating whether to start a loan program for newly insured patients who need help paying their share of medical bills. And it's not alone...
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The hospital industry says Medicare's retrospective program of auditing hospital bills challenges too many claims that later turn out to be justified. But a report by HHS' Office of the Inspector General found that the Medicare recovery audit program is more accurate than hospital lobbyists...
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Hospital systems are taking the cost-reduction lessons they learned with medical devices such as joint implants and are applying them to more obscure and less costly categories of hospital spending.
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Healthcare services in Florida's prisons are undergoing a big overhaul this summer as the state hands over care for its more than 100,000 inmates to a private company.
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In a victory for health insurance exchange customers with lower incomes, HHS issued a final rule Wednesday that will allow individuals to pay their premiums with a prepaid debit card. The move allows individuals who do not have a bank account, called the “unbanked,” to pay premiums with...
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