A new study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association has found that obtaining price information for total hip arthroplasty is difficult and that there is a wide variation in the prices quoted.

With a fourth consecutive year of record-low healthcare spending growth, the Congressional Budget Office has reduced its spending projections for Medicare and Medicaid in 2020 by $200 billion, 15 percent, from predictions three years ago, according to a report by…

President Barack Obama, once open to the option of raising the Medicare eligibility age from 65 to 67, will oppose the measure in his State of the Union address tonight as well as in budget negotiations with Republican lawmakers going…

A study by Sunnyvale, Calif.-based technology company HealthPocket, shows 36 percent of health plans nationwide exceeded the $6,250 out-of-pocket spending limit for consumers to meet federal approval under the health law.

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, a Chicago-based health information advocacy group, wrote HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and CMS Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner urging they maintain the Oct. 1, 2014, deadline for nationwide ICD-10 adoption.

Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., is continuing to seep under water financially, in more than one way, as the hospital is one of the biggest water bill debtors in the city, according to a New York…

In 2012, Moody's Investors Service downgraded $20 billion in non-profit hospital and health system debt — a 213 percent increase from 2011 and the highest amount of downgraded debt since Moody's started tracking the data in 1995, according to a…

Community Healthcare of Douglas, the operator of Southeast Arizona Medical Center in Douglas, Ariz., has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to a Sierra Vista Herald report.

Bain Capital Partners and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., two of the major investors of Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation of America, said they will sell roughly 50 million shares of common HCA stock in a secondary offering.

Everything hospital executives need to know about the importance of clinical documentation improvement is summed up in one single fact: CDI fuels correct reimbursement and accurate quality reporting. Beyond this fact lies a myriad of people, processes and technology that…