While the Lown Institute's ranking system includes the typical Medicare quality measures, it also uses data from CMS, hospital 990 forms and other federal data to show how well hospitals are leveraging their role in communities.

Researchers say Black patients are experiencing poorer outcomes from COVID-19 even when underlying health conditions or socio-economic status are not factors.

Physicians' offices were the largest small-business COVID-19 loan recipients in the healthcare sector, according to new federal data.

Labs are deploying automated, high-throughput sample preparation instruments and techniques to increase testing throughput, but some are experiencing supply chain disruptions at this stage in the workflow, as well.

The 2010 passage of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act was associated with a 47% reduction in obesity prevalence among students in poverty.

Live updates from Modern Healthcare on the coronavirus outbreak and how COVID-19 is affecting the healthcare industry.

The personal protective gear that was in dangerously short supply during the early weeks of the coronavirus crisis in the U.S. is running low again as the virus resumes its rapid spread and the number of hospitalized patients climbs.

Although COVID-19 is funneling away many federal and state resources, the Bipartisan Policy Center said Medicaid should still focus on primary care.

Some facilities that have had coronavirus cases and deaths turn up as having none on Medicare's COVID-19 nursing home website. The data may be incomplete because the reporting requirements don't reach back to the start of the pandemic.

The Veterans Affairs Department said it inadvertently overpaid Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute more than $2.3 million for physician-administered drugs, which the provider has agreed to repay.

Illinois' biggest independent doctors’ practice taps a former executive with UnitedHealth Group.

Under the proposed rule, CMS will boost payments to physicians and other providers that use home dialysis machines to treat end-stage renal disease patients.

A new survey shows that health insurers are increasingly interested in selling dental coverage to their health plan customers as a way to grow profits and align with the movement toward value-based, whole-person care.

Since its founding in 2013, Landmark Health has been focused on taking care of seniors with chronic conditions in their homes. CEO Nick Loporcaro says one of the pandemic’s biggest challenges has been addressing the increased feeling of isolation among patients.

COVID-19 has put the future of Cook County's healthcare safety net in jeopardy. It provides far more free care to low-income patients than any other hospital in the area.

A federal district judge ruled that HHS improperly denied Medicare payments to Kindred Healthcare for care provided to dual-eligibles. The agency will have to reevaluate its decision.

New York hospitals released more than 6,300 recovering coronavirus patients into nursing homes during the height of the pandemic under a controversial, now-scrapped policy, but state officials argued it was not to blame for high death tolls.

Patients face the possibility of higher drug costs under a federal rule finalized this spring by the Trump administration.

As our country considers how we address the legacies of structural racism brought to a boiling point by George Floyd's death, our path forward must include a federally backed capital investment plan for our safety-net hospitals and clinics.

Accountable care organization Southwestern Health Resources quickly moved its clinical services online as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold. Its COO Dr. Sanjay Doddamani said there are more changes coming to re-align value-based care.

More than 700 nurses went on strike at Amita St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, Ill., over staffing concerns and alleged unfair labor practices.