During an exclusive interview, HHS Secretary Alex Azar and HHS Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan discussed with reporter Mike Brady how the physician self-referral and anti-kickback statute changes could affect the healthcare industry.

Calls for reforming policing practices have sparked interest in crisis intervention models for mental health that supporters hope will lead to decriminalizing mental illness.

Many regions with the highest, lowest per-beneficiary Medicare spending were largely unchanged from 2010 to 2017, though overall per-enrollee spending growth slowed significantly.

Patients are putting off needed care during the pandemic, creating concerns about the long-term implications for patients.

This year, HHS' Office for Civil Rights has doled out 10 settlements with health systems, private practices and other providers that allegedly failed to respond to patient requests for health records in a timely manner.

The changes could encourage more patients to receive care at home as a recent surge in COVID-19 cases diminishes capacity at many hospitals.

If drugmakers don't voluntarily lower prices, providers have to choose whether to offer the drug at a financial loss.

The lawsuit is the first of what will likely be many healthcare industry legal challenges to the Trump administration's last-minute attempts to achieve policy goals before the transition in January.

David Cordani allegedly hired "black ops style" consultants to derail the deal, which investors claim also prevented Cigna from collecting a $1.85 billion reverse termination fee.

A federal judge dismissed a False Claims Act lawsuit against HCA Healthcare and subsidiaries in Kansas alleging they submitted false Medicare and Tricare claims.

Ohio Medicaid, the state's five Medicaid managed care organizations and the state's Area Agencies on Aging will work together to pair residents with volunteers for 30-minute informal calls twice a week.

Sanford Health CEO Kelby Krabbenhoft late last week said he didn't need to wear a mask because he is immune from contracting or transmitting COVID-19 since he tested positive.

Purdue Pharma admitted impeding the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's efforts to combat the addiction crisis.

We can only achieve health when we create a system that gets paid for health, rather than volume and complexity of services. The best place to begin this transformation is with our children.

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

So far, 180 Connecticut providers have agreed to participate. The new program, along with other related efforts, could save the state $185 million through fiscal 2021.

Long-term care leaders issue pleas for government and public to help older adults as coronavirus cases rise.

Any price limits would shake the business model of an industry accustomed to routine hikes that far exceed the rate of inflation.

The health system's operating income improved substantially in the third quarter of 2020, but not enough to make up the loss it reported earlier in the year, leaving the Clinic with a $107 million operating loss for the nine-month period ending Sept. 30.

The model, described as "brazen and unhinged" by one doctors' group, requires participation from healthcare providers, though there are several categories of exceptions.

AdventHealth and biotechnology company Berg are creating a biobank of demographic and clinical data from COVID-19 cases, which they'll use to study what interventions were linked with better patient outcomes.

The mix of hospital ownership in the Akron market has shifted this month with University Hospitals gaining a minority interest in Western Reserve Hospital, an independent, physician-owned hospital in Cuyahoga Falls.

As COVID-19 positivity rates rise in the city and surrounding areas, hospital leaders are on high alert, with the spring’s surge still fresh on their minds.

Many critical-care doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers expect to work 12- to 16-hour shifts to take care of the numbers of increasingly ill patients — not just from the coronavirus, but from a combination of influenza and the normal winter uptick in medical activity at the end of the year.

Out-of-state hospitals can still transfer patients into Arizona through direct hospital-to-hospital requests, but the use of the interstate Arizona Surge Line system has been suspended.

Bristol Myers Squibb and Johnson & Johnson announced last week that they are going to dedicate $100 million each to promote health equity and diversity efforts.

The company said it has shuttered 20 factories outside Kuala Lumpur since Nov. 17 after nearly 3,000 workers tested positive for the virus.

Around 83,000 people in the U.S. are hospitalized with COVID-19. Infections have led to a shortage of hospital beds and healthcare workers, and they threaten non-COVID-19-related surgeries and other care.