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Healthcare innovation doesn't happen overnight, or even within three years. Read about the Top 5 innovations happening in healthcare delivery right now.
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One of the nation's largest not-for-profit hospital operators is building its own insurance arm to sell health plans directly to employers.
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Here's another reason for states to expand Medicaid: preventing crime by mentally ill offenders.
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Healthcare providers and insurers are moving onto the front lines of the nation's war on obesity as policymakers' efforts flounder.
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An influential doubter poured cold water on the Obama administration's promise that health insurance marketplaces across the U.S. will be open for business in a matter of months, even as officials stand by their word that enrollment will begin in every state Oct. 1.
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As a former investment banker, Henry Purchase was no stranger to paperwork. But even that did not prepare him for the forms and regulations he faced when moving his mother into a nursing home.
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A growing number of states want to use the coming health insurance exchanges as a means to expand Medicaid coverage, and the approach carries both promise and pitfalls for providers.
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Federal authorities and healthcare providers continue to wrestle with conflicts that might taint decisions about which drugs reach patients. Concerns persist even as new federal rules that seek to improve transparency among providers and drug and device manufacturers go into effect.
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The popular notion in healthcare is that the most aggressive fraud hunters—known as “zone program integrity contractors,” or ZPICs—focus on small players. That idea is wrong.
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President Barack Obama's blink-and-you'll-miss-it mention of healthcare in his State of the Union address left industry leaders to speculate how far the administration will go toward reforming Medicare to reduce the nation's deficit—and which programs will take the hardest hit in the...
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