John N. Frank

The U.S. House Thursday voted overwhelmingly in favor of scrapping Medicare's sustainable growth-rate formula, passing a permanent doc fix 392-37. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called the bill “transformative in how it rewards the value, not the volume.”

The current U.S. measles outbreak is causing providers and pediatricians in particular to consider how they should talk with parents about vaccinations.

Chicago-based Huron Consulting Group is acquiring well-known healthcare consultant Studer Group, in a $325 million deal, creating a healthcare consulting operation that will have more than 1,500 employees, Huron announced Tuesday.

Virginia Mason Medical Center, responding Saturday after numerous press reports of deaths at its facility over a two-year period, said in a statement that the problem stemmed from endoscope cleaning guidelines that were inadequate.

Being a health tech wunderkind has its advantages, like being able to host wacky parties while saying it's all about creating a new healthcare IT paradigm, the way CEO Jonathan Bush does for his company, Athenahealth. But there's also a downside that Bush is discovering.

Healthcare spending rose a revised 4.6% on an annualized basis in the third quarter when compared to the second quarter, which recorded a 4% rise when compared with the first, a sign consumers may have started spending more for healthcare, the U.S. Commerce Department reported Tuesday.

Last-minute congressional budget bills are normally Christmas tree measures full of goodies for all sorts of special interests. The budget measure Congress approved this weekend was no exception. In it, the food industry and local school districts got a special gift that likely will impact the health of many Americans and, in the long run, affect how much they need to spend on healthcare.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit postponed arguments in Halbig v. Burwell in light of the Supreme Court's decision to take up whether people who bought coverage from a federally run marketplace qualify for subsidies.

Kindred Healthcare reported a significantly lower net loss for the third quarter compared with the same period a year ago, a sign that recent restructuring efforts are bearing financial fruit.

The U.S. healthcare system got a new Ebola patient last week when a doctor in New York City tested positive, while another, Texas nurse Nina Pham, was declared free of the Ebola virus.