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.

A new New England Journal of Medicine study finds that if Medicare payments were adjusted to subtract the amounts paid for post-operative visits that weren't delivered, the program would have saved $2.6 billion in 2018.

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

The CMS will foot the bill for Medicare enrollees to receive acupuncture to deal with chronic low back pain. It's part of a broader effort to help people manage pain without opioids.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

The days of wearable tech being a novelty are over. Reporting from the Consumer Electronics Show reinforced the notion that wearables will be a fixture in a consumer-driven healthcare economy.

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to reject the expedited review means legal questions surrounding the ACA will persist through the 2020 election.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.