The U.S. Supreme Court said the Trump administration can enforce a rule penalizing legal immigrants for using safety-net programs while court battles play out.

Long-term care providers are urgently developing ambitious strategies for recruiting and retaining personal care aides in the face of growing shortages and high turnover.

Cost is a barrier to accessing care for a growing share of uninsured and insured Americans despite insurance coverage improvements over the past 20 years.

Louisiana's state procurement officer Paula Tregre ruled the health department did such an inadequate job evaluating proposals from six contractors vying for the Medicaid managed-care work that the three-year deals awarded to four insurance companies shouldn't stand.

Beaumont Health has fired an employee suspected of disclosing confidential information of more than 1,000 patients to a person believed to have been working on behalf of a personal injury attorney, the Michigan hospital system confirmed last week.

Geisinger alleges AtlantiCare's attempt to leave the integrated health system violates their contract.

A national patient identifier program—which has been banned by Congress for decades—wouldn't be a "silver bullet" for healthcare's costly patient-matching problem.

During his 40-year career in Congress, Pete Stark helped craft several seminal laws changing healthcare including anti-kickback laws, emergency treatment rules and the Affordable Care Act.

About 1.3 million people in Illinois have diabetes, and patients told lawmakers that insulin can cost them up to $1,000 a month.

Researchers say the new study shedding light on healthcare's economic burden speaks to the regressive nature of how the nation's health system is financed.

Federal agencies and the industry help chief information security officers stay up-to-date on emerging threats, but chasing new variants of ransomware is a never-ending job.

John DiAngelo will retire at the end of the year, capping a 20-year tenure at the Mullica Hill, N.J.-based not-for-profit health system.

A list of the nation's 20 largest healthcare investment banks, ranked by amount of loans underwritten in the healthcare sector in 2019.

The IHI Leadership Alliance is calling on healthcare organizations nationwide to try to reduce waste in the U.S. healthcare system by 50% over the next five years.

HHS' Office for Civil Rights says California requiring insurers to cover elective abortions violates a federal anti-discrimination law because they receive money from the agency.

With more production moving overseas, providers and manufacturers need to be more strategic about supply chain management.

While the joint replacement bundle for hips and knees has been one of the most popular of Medicare's Bundled Payment for Care Improvement Advanced program, providers are moving on to other bundles.

Changes to Medicaid policy like extending postpartum Medicaid eligibility and coverage for non-clinical services could improve maternal health for poor women of color and rural women, according to new MACPAC research.

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.

Major healthcare companies and lobbying groups spent big dollars as they fought to advance their interests on surprise medical billing, Affordable Care Act taxes and prescription drug pricing. And they mostly got their way.

Insys founder John Kapoor and others were accused of paying millions of dollars in bribes to doctors across the U.S. to prescribe the company's highly addictive oral fentanyl spray, known as Subsys.

As debates continue over transparency, surprise billing and more, Dr. Melinda Estes hopes consumers and policymakers hear a broader story.

With an estimated $1.1 billion investment, the plan is to build at least one new hospital and open up to six new community health centers that would expand access to preventive services and address social determinants of health.

Bryan Medical Center in Lincoln, Neb., deployed an artificial-intelligence camera system to flag nurses when it looks like a rehab patient needs help leaving their bed.

Three surveys provide a glimpse into Americans' views on healthcare and health insurance costs, and how to manage them.

We desperately need healthcare executives to step up and lead a wholesale redesign of how care is delivered and paid for in this country.

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.

Right now, patients and families must use different interfaces on the Medicare website based on the care setting they are interested in.

Too few healthcare professionals are giving their patients advice to quit smoking, according to the U.S. surgeon general on Thursday in the first report on smoking cessation in 30 years.

Polls suggest most working-age Americans are satisfied with their employer-based health insurance. That could easily change when this deficit-fueled economic expansion ends, as it inevitably will.

Right now, patients and families must use different interfaces on the Medicare website based on the care setting they are interested in.

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.