Several justices seemed sympathetic to insurers who say that the federal government owes them more than $12 billion in risk-corridor payments under the ACA.

KPC Group's planned purchase of four hospitals from bankrupt Verity Health is looking increasingly uncertain, especially after the company missed a court-appointed deadline to close the deal.

Top Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are pitching a new drug-pricing plan as an alternative to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's government drug price negotiation proposal.

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement is calling on healthcare stakeholders across the globe to rethink how patient safety is currently measured.

A provision of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade that would have guaranteed 10 years of market exclusivity for biologic drugs was stripped out of an agreement between Congress and the Trump administration.

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Operating cash flow will grow 2% to 3% in 2020, driven by the highest Medicare reimbursement rate increases in around a decade. As a result, Moody's Investors Service has changed its outlook for not-for-profit hospitals from negative to stable.

Although some recent studies suggest that the rate of physician burnout is falling, the issue is still a major problem.

Banner Health has agreed to pay up to $6 million to victims of a massive data breach the Arizona health system experienced in 2016, according to court documents.

There's a chance that health insurers owed $12 billion in ACA risk corridor funds won't receive a payout even if the U.S. Supreme Court rules in their favor. Plan members are unlikely to benefit in any scenario.

Despite facing legal setbacks, many credit Verma for aggressively articulating and pursuing a vision of strengthening market forces to reduce costs and improve quality.

Connecticut's governor and attorney general say they have reached a preliminary deal with the state's hospital association to resolve longstanding legal disagreement over hospital taxes.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers produced a deal on surprise billing legislation that is more provider-friendly than previous bills, but hospitals still oppose the deal.

With the exception of births, Partners HealthCare reported sluggish inpatient volumes in the final quarter of its fiscal 2019.

Trinity Health's Ben Carter, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will take over as its new chief operating officer Jan. 1. Trinity Health is one of the country's largest Catholic healthcare systems.

Ashik Desai, who was in charge of business development at the healthcare advertising company, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud this morning before U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin. Desai faces up to 10 years in prison as part of the plea agreement, prosecutors said.

OptumRx's proposed acquisition of Diplomat Pharmacy would help it expand its specialty pharmacy and infusion services, the company said.

Researchers at Intermountain Healthcare have developed a treatment guide to quickly identify and treat patients who develop respiratory injury from vaping.

Public health officials believe the best approach for preventing new HIV infections is a once-a-day pill approved by the FDA in 2012. But the drug’s price puts it out of reach for those who need it most.

Healthcare leaders say the industry needs to make long-term commitments toward addressing social needs.

MedPAC members want to freeze rate increases for hospices. They also want to lower the aggregate cap on hospice payments because they think freestanding and for-profit hospices are making too much money off of Medicare.

Healthcare CEOs say they want to see action on strengthening the Affordable Care Act, controlling drug prices, and boosting funding for behavioral health treatment.

A New York doctor described as one of the nation's top dispensers of a highly addictive painkiller was convicted of accepting over $300,000 in bribes disguised as speaker fees to write prescriptions.

Priority Health CEO Joan Budden discusses the pending merger with Total Health Care and the impact on Michigan Medicaid beneficiaries.

Although the healthcare industry has made significant progress toward paying for value, those arrangements aren't moving the needle on cost and quality, a new report shows.

Advances in health information systems help doctors and other healthcare professionals share medical information securely and often immediately. But that’s not the case when dealing with substance use disorder.

Amazon said the new machine-learning tool is HIPAA-compliant and can transcribe spoken medical dictation into text.