With more production moving overseas, providers and manufacturers need to be more strategic about supply chain management.

While the joint replacement bundle for hips and knees has been one of the most popular of Medicare's Bundled Payment for Care Improvement Advanced program, providers are moving on to other bundles.

Major healthcare companies and lobbying groups spent big dollars as they fought to advance their interests on surprise medical billing, Affordable Care Act taxes and prescription drug pricing. And they mostly got their way.

Changes to Medicaid policy like extending postpartum Medicaid eligibility and coverage for non-clinical services could improve maternal health for poor women of color and rural women, according to new MACPAC research.

HHS' Office for Civil Rights says California requiring insurers to cover elective abortions violates a federal anti-discrimination law because they receive money from the agency.

Insys founder John Kapoor and others were accused of paying millions of dollars in bribes to doctors across the U.S. to prescribe the company's highly addictive oral fentanyl spray, known as Subsys.

The patient is doing well and remains hospitalized "primarily for infection control," said Dr. Allison Arwady, Chicago's public health commissioner. People that the women had close contact with are being monitored.

The southwest Missouri physician is accused of receiving tens of thousands of dollars in kickbacks for prescribing fentanyl spray to hundreds of patients in a $2.4 million medical fraud scheme.

The University of Louisville plans to hire almost 400 nurses and doctors to increase access to local healthcare in its expanded system.

With an estimated $1.1 billion investment, the plan is to build at least one new hospital and open up to six new community health centers that would expand access to preventive services and address social determinants of health.

We need to confront one of the most important but difficult challenges any society can face: to end racism where it originates, in the thoughts and attitudes of a country that has embraced racism, overtly and covertly, for most of its history.

Right now, patients and families must use different interfaces on the Medicare website based on the care setting they are interested in.

Too few healthcare professionals are giving their patients advice to quit smoking, according to the U.S. surgeon general on Thursday in the first report on smoking cessation in 30 years.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to fast-track consideration of a case that could decide the fate of the Affordable Care Act, but California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is still optimistic.

Medicaid experts called for primary care providers to play a key role in care coordination and policy alignment to reduce the number of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome.

Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health announced longtime CEO Kevin Lofton will retire at the end of June. Lofton has served as co-CEO of the health system since its Feb. 1, 2019 merger with Dignity Health.

Nearly 8 million of the recalled surgical gowns were distributed to 2,807 facilities worldwide over the course of more than a year.

A screening process that risk-stratifies behavioral health patients is reducing the length of stay at Amita Health’s St. Joseph Hospital in Chicago.

Wraparound primary-care models can limit spending and reduce hospitalizations, but experts question whether they are economically viable amid labor shortages and costly preventive services.

The spinoff's mission to lower the cost of generic pharmacy drugs is notably different from Civica's, which is pursuing rights to manufacture generic drugs often used in hospitals that are subject to shortages and price spikes.

Right now, patients and families must use different interfaces on the Medicare website based on the care setting they are interested in.

At a time when many community hospitals are struggling to attract patients amid increased competition, Little Company of Mary Hospital in suburban Chicago is bucking the trend.

Health insurers Centene Corp. and WellCare Health Plans said they expect to close their $17 billion merger Thursday, creating one of the largest providers of government-sponsored health plans.

Two former drug company executives were sentenced to more than two years in federal prison in a bribery and kickbacks scheme that prosecutors say helped fuel the opioid crisis.

The Coalition Against Rate-Setting opposes using benchmark payments to solve balance billing in any fashion, calling the policy "federal price-fixing."