Healthcare recruiters and executives hope new succession-planning processes, streamlined reporting structures, mission-driven investments and a team-based approach to healthcare will create a more fulfilling work environment.

Updates to the self-referral and anti-kickback laws offer providers more flexibility in the gradual pursuit of risk-based payments, but issues like data-gathering and -sharing still pose major hurdles.

Under the letter of intent, RWJBarnabas will become the corporate parent of Trinitas and invest in the 554-bed acute-care teaching hospital, with plans to expand its outpatient network.

HHS unveiled its long-awaited proposal to change its anti-kickback laws, suggesting value-based payments and coordinated care should be protected from Stark law enforcement.

Associations representing therapists have urged the CMS to intervene as thousands of SNF employees have been laid off in response to the new payment model.

Skilled-nursing facilities that "overutilized" therapy are restructuring to adapt to the new patient-driven payment model, leaving a number of therapists in the lurch.

Households in Indiana's most concentrated healthcare markets pay more than double per procedure compared with those in the most competitive markets, a new policy brief shows.

The healthcare industry lags behind other sectors’ training practices and many providers will need to adapt their internal development programs to remain competitive.

The partnership of New Jersey health systems includes an ambulatory-care joint venture, a new women's health center and the addition of two proton-therapy machines, officials said.

The Boston-based health system's proposed acquisition of Exeter Health Resources would diminish competition, officials said.

The long-term partnership between the not-for-profit systems will unify their electronic health records as they look to streamline operations and build on their telemedicine capabilities.

A Houston-area hospital administrator was sentenced to 10 years in prison for defrauding Medicare of $16 million and ordered to pay nearly $6.3 million in restitution. The scheme involved bribes to steer Medicare beneficiaries to two hospitals.

Nearly three-quarters of urban hospital markets are highly concentrated, drawing concern from researchers who warn that less competition can inflate healthcare costs.

Changes coming to the way skilled-nursing homes are paid will pinch SNFs that have boosted investment in therapy as well as those treating a smaller share of medically complex patients.

Community leaders who formed the Albert Lea Healthcare Coalition following the Mayo Clinic fallout lured MercyOne North Iowa as they seek to bring a competitive balance to the rural community.