Specialists like anesthesiologists, orthopedic surgeons and cardiologists, who don't typically treat infectious disease patients, are heeding calls from overwhelmed hospitals to help treat the rising number of COVID-19 patients.

Researchers and companies are trying new approaches to map the novel coronavirus' spread. It's a challenge, given the limited number of tests available to confirm where cases actually are.

President Trump thinks that "something's going on" because some hospitals have dramatically increased how many masks they're using during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

Intermountain Healthcare is cutting physician pay and reviewing shift assignments as it braces for the financial toll of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Data compiled by Johns Hopkins University shows that 1,297 counties have no confirmed cases of COVID-19 out of 3,142 counties nationwide.

And as cases skyrocket in the U.S. and Europe, it's becoming more clear that how healthy you were before the pandemic began plays a key role in how you fare regardless of how old you are.

Nurses working at five hospitals owned by M Health in Minnesota have overwhelmingly voted that they have "no confidence" in the hospital's response to the COVID-19 crisis.

Dr. Tunde Sotunde will become Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina's president and CEO beginning June 1. He replaces Dr. Patrick Conway, who resigned last year.

Appalachian Regional Healthcare, a 13-hospital system in Lexington, Ky., will furlough 500 employees—about 8% of its workforce.

Dialysis patients are among those most at risk for becoming severely ill during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dialysis centers face significant challenges in protecting them from infection.

President Donald Trump is extending the voluntary national shutdown for a month as sickness and death from the coronavirus pandemic rise in the U.S.

Vice President Mike Pence wrote hospitals saying that in-house labs are not tracked the same as private labs. The data is needed to get a complete picture of the COVID-19 outbreak.

A high-ranking federal official in late February warned that the United States needed to plan for not having enough personal protective equipment for medical workers as they began to battle the novel coronavirus, according to internal emails obtained by Kaiser Health News.

The CMS detailed how providers can access accelerated or advanced payments under the new economic stimulus package.

Dr. Ming Lin, a ER doctor at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center in Bellingham, Wash., for the past 17 years, said he's been fired after posting on social media that the hospital was slow to screen visitors and negligent in not testing staff.

Nursing homes and advocates hope the ruling will prompt the CMS to reconsider its observation status policies.

Illegal drug use and prescription drug abuse are severe threats to public health that need a strategic and coordinated national response, and it could get worse due to the coronavirus outbreak, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said.

"The beds are the easy part," Northwell Health CEO Michael Dowling said. "It's the staff and supplies that become the management part."

Matthew Kull has been appointed Cleveland Clinic's chief information officer, effective immediately, after serving as the interim CIO since November.

A neuroscientist at the Broad Institute and Harvard University has launched a national effort to marshal scientists to volunteer in the fight against the coronavirus.

Former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma family doctor known for railing against federal earmarks, didn't let political differences dictate whom he called friends—even if it didn't sit well with some of his supporters.

Advocate Aurora Health saw a moderate uptick in inpatient and outpatient volumes in the fourth quarter of 2019. Despite a decline on the operating front, 15-hospital Novant Health's investments performed well in 2019, leading to a spike in excess revenue over expenses.

Leading investors, researchers and other experts suggest that the next decades of biotechnology innovation will usher in a new phase of precision medicine, with the potential to fundamentally change how patient care is managed.

Housekeepers, nursing aides and other employees need stronger support and benefits during the pandemic, experts say.

Pursuit of a COVID-19 treatment has reignited debate over drugs developed with public funds.

Insurers claim that new laws passed in response to COVID-19 could allow labs to name high prices for tests, while labs say that insurers could negotiate to drive payments below cost.

An estimated 4,000 U.S. hospitals outsource their emergency departments seeking a staffing, financial and performance boost. But keeping patients in-network is getting harder.

President Donald Trump accused General Motors of "wasting time" and ordered the automaker to produce ventilators in the fight against COVID-19.

The U.S. Justice Department sued national health insurer Anthem for fraudulently collecting hundreds of millions of dollars from the Medicare program by exaggerating the illnesses of its members.

An arguably tight timeline for complying with the CMS' interoperability rule could put a strain on insurers as they dedicate more resources and attention toward addressing the coronavirus outbreak.

Early research suggests patients haven't rushed to download health records to their smartphones as envisioned by the Trump administration's new interoperability rules.

As a result of the coronavirus crisis and our collective response to it, we just might be seeing what healthcare can look like once this crisis passes.

A federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action challenging UnitedHealthcare's refusal to cover a certain type of cancer treatment known as proton beam therapy.

Mount Sinai Health System in New York has set up a three-part action plan to address the stresses COVID-19 is creating for its workforce. 

The coronavirus couldn’t care less if you live in a red state or a blue state. Yet states across the U.S. are taking dramatically different approaches to controlling the spread of the highly contagious COVID-19.

Dr. Pat Basu is coming up on his year anniversary as CEO of Cancer Treatment Centers of America. During that time, Basu has worked to expand its network with payers and forge partnerships with other providers.

Hospitals, state governments and the Federal Emergency Management Agency are left bidding against each other and driving up prices.

For many in the public health and political worlds, Dr. Deborah Birx is the sober scientist advising an unpredictable president.