As the U.S. sees its first case of the Wuhan virus, major U.S. accounting firm RSM said U.S. hospitals should financially and operationally prepare for an outbreak.

The American College of Physicians has expressed openness to a single-payer system before, but this is the first time the group has explicitly recommended a transition to single-payer.

Some experts hoped the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission would signal tougher scrutiny on vertical merger deals in the future.

Investors poured more than $7 billion in venture capital into health technology startups last year, hinting at the next round of vendors health systems should be keeping their eyes on.

In previous years, success has looked like bars growing progressively taller in what was then a key metric of success: growth in admissions. For presentations this year, most health system leaders left that slide at home, replaced with days cash on hand or revenue.

Louisiana's multibillion-dollar Medicaid contracts have been scrapped after the state's chief procurement officer determined the health department mishandled the bid process for deals to provide health services to 1.5 million people.

Salt Lake City-based Intermountain aims to build a second Primary Children's Hospital campus, expand telemedicine, increase the number of pediatric emergency clinicians in rural areas and add behavioral health services.

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.

Shannon Sartin, former director of digital service at the CMS, said she will return to the agency as chief technology officer of its Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation.

Money raised at more than a dozen United Church of Christ congregations and a donation from the St. Louis-based Deaconess Foundation wiped away nearly $13 million in medical debt for 11,108 families in St. Louis city and county.

Healthcare’s operating model is an anachronism, reliant on closed data systems and too much paper and manual processing in this digital age. And customer convenience is an afterthought.

In the absence of federal action, states are aiming to address hospital costs. Experts note that states often serve as laboratories for policy innovation.

The Supreme Court will hear two cases on whether employer health plans should be allowed religious and moral exemptions from the Affordable Care Act's requirement to cover birth control.

Advocate Aurora Health's chief financial officer expanded on the health system's recently announced plan to more than double its revenue by 2025. He said consolidation will be one strategy.

While a Medicare Payment Advisory Commission study found that 340B hospitals don't have incentives to buy more expensive drugs, it didn't account for differences in disease progression or a critical change in 340B payments.

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.

There were 85 hospital transactions last year, which marked the second-lowest total since 2009, Ponder & Co.'s data show.

The $45 million pledge will feed into a new $750 million California fund that providers could use to pay rents or subsidize affordable housing or to help board-and-care homes.

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

It’s simply not realistic to expect a 180-day intervention that bolts on a few social services and home visits to immediately lower the healthcare costs of people with multiple chronic conditions.

Erin Asprec, Memorial Hermann's current chief transformation officer, will oversee the Houston-based system's 17 hospitals and more than 300 outpatient clinics.

The wholesale distribution giant warned customers that it is coordinating with the FDA to recall the widely used AAMI Level 3 surgical gowns.

Nebraska's Medicaid waiver could beat legal scrutiny by creating a two-tiered Medicaid expansion with a work requirement, but critics say the plan is too complicated, ill-conceived and won't help people work or get the care they need.

On-the-ground reports from the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, including CMS Administrator Seema Verma's claim that more states will choose to relinquish their federal Medicaid match in favor of block grants and waivers.

Teladoc Health expects its latest acquisition to better position the company in the provider market.

Hospitals will need more social workers to address the social determinants of health, but these professionals are having trouble getting the payments and licenses they need to deliver care.