The agency will base this first round of funding on Medicare revenue.

For-profit hospital chain HCA Healthcare is encouraging other hospitals to share COVID-19 data through the project, dubbed the COVID-19 National Response Portal.

Treating the nation's uninsured for COVID-19 could cost hospitals as much as $42 billion, according to estimates from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

For-profit hospital chain Quorum Health, which was spun off from Community Health Systems in 2016, wants to continue to operate its hospitals during the bankruptcy proceedings.

The CMS' efforts to expand telehealth services under Medicare Advantage has support, even though some of the details don't. Insurers and healthcare experts agree the CMS' star-rating system shouldn't prioritize patient experience over outcomes.

COVID-19′s toll in New York City is now more than 1,000 deaths higher than that of the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil, which killed 2,753 people in the city and 2,977 overall.

Texas hospitals provide some of the highest rates of free and discounted care in the country, and some administrators fear the COVID-19 outbreak could push demand for charity care even higher.

Using self-driving vehicles could reduce the risk of workers transporting lab tests from being exposed to the novel coronavirus, according to Mayo Clinic.

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

Community transmission was responsible for the virus' spread earlier this year in Wuhan, the pandemic's origin, according to a new study.

Patients rely on the facilities for obtaining medication-assisted treatment. But providers are trying to reduce the number of in-person visits and the risk of patients being exposed to COVID-19.

We all want social distancing to end and for life to go back to normal. However, the consequences of emerging from our homes too soon will be catastrophic for everyone.

Several behavioral health providers and patients sued UnitedHealth Group and Cigna subsidiaries for allegedly underpaying the providers for out-of-network claims, leaving patients with massive medical bills.

Commandeering those units would set up a monumental ethical dilemma: Do you remove life support for a long-term nursing care patient in order to give a COVID-19 patient a better chance of survival?

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont issued an executive order that would only allow hospitals to bill uninsured patients for the Medicare price of COVID-19 care.

Healthcare is a human-intensive industry; we must deliberately focus on protecting our staff from harm as a first principle.

People with cancer are among those at high risk of complications if infected with the new coronavirus. It's estimated 1.8 million people will be diagnosed with cancer in the U.S. this year. More than 600,000 people are receiving chemotherapy.

Healthcare providers in the U.S. have been consolidating rapidly, and the current coronavirus pandemic illustrates why this may be a very good thing for all of us.

The CMS announced that Medicare Advantage plans will get a 1.66% pay increase in addition to payment changes for Medicare Part D and PACE programs.

The drugstore chain will use Abbott's new test, which delivers results in five minutes.

Massachusetts General Hospital, the Infectious Disease Diagnostics Laboratory at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), and the Diagnostic Molecular Laboratory at Northwestern Medicine, received federal approval for COVID-19 tests.

Georgia motorists were told to keep their windows rolled up as their cars lined up at a mass drive-through testing site for COVID-19 that opened Monday in a parking deck at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

A new study supports existing research linking housing and health outcomes, a dynamic that will be heavily tested by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Increasing patient access to social workers within primary care could lower hospitalizations and emergency department visits for higher-risk patients.

Without realizing it, an investment that CHI Franciscan CEO Ketul J. Patel made last year delivered huge dividends almost immediately.

A new Health Affairs study found that when an Area Agency on Aging establishes a partnership with a hospital, the counties covered by the agency saw an average yearly reduction in Medicare spending per beneficiary of $135.50.

Despite a strong need for clinicians, healthcare organizations are laying off or furloughing thousands of workers.

Piedmont Healthcare said three floors of the new Marcus Tower at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital will now open on April 13. The tower was originally slated to open Aug. 1.

Even as the coronavirus pandemic claimed a newborn baby in Louisiana, Gov. John Bel Edwards said Monday the latest COVID-19 hospital admission and death rates could suggest new infections are slowing.

Hospitals are tapping chatbots to help triage patients and even screen their own employees in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.

The new coronavirus doesn't discriminate. But physicians in public health and on the front lines said they already can see the emergence of familiar patterns of racial and economic bias in the response to the pandemic.

Nursing homes are proving to be a breeding ground for COVID-19 outbreaks, so critical-access hospitals that own long-term care facilities are making plans to prevent any cases that could overrun their EDs.

Self-funded employers are joining purchasing cooperatives because they are increasingly dissatisfied with the cost-control efforts of insurers and third-party administrators.

Co-founder and CEO Mario Schlosser is eyeing growth in the competitive Medicare Advantage space and relaunching in the small business market.

A list of the nation's 20 largest healthcare provider personal membership associations, ranked by 2018 revenue reported on 2018 IRS Forms 990.

Increased access to health insurance has not led to an increase in persons with a regular primary-care provider, particularly among younger patients.