Long Island College Hospital — part of State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn — appears to be nearing its death bed, as SUNY Downstate President John Williams, MD, reportedly will recommend today the state close LICH,…

Franklin, Tenn.-based IASIS Healthcare posted a profit of $2.47 million in the first quarter of its 2013 fiscal year — an increase of more than 82 percent from last year's $1.35 million.

High expenses, lower federal reimbursement for patient services and sluggish investments caused University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's (pdf) second-quarter profit to fall 53.8 percent, from $143.7 million a year ago to $66.4 million this year.

U.S. Reps. Joe Heck, DO (R-Nev.), and Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.) have introduced new legislation that would permanently repeal the sustainable growth rate, which dictates Medicare reimbursement to physicians.

Southcoast Health System, a three-hospital, non-profit system based in New Bedford, Mass., brought Gary Conner on board as CFO in November 2012, and it has since received favorable ratings.

Healthcare providers should prepare to set aside ICD-10 transition funds for more than just software and equipment upgrades, according to Government Health IT.

Cleveland-based safety-net health system MetroHealth has been approved to operate a Medicaid waiver program that will allow up to 30,000 Ohioans who fall under 133 percent of the federal poverty line to obtain free healthcare coverage.

Providers can access a free online tool to ease enrollment in electronic funds transfer programs with multiple payors as part of a project launched by the Council for Affordable and Quality Healthcare.

At the turn of 2013, amidst all of the fiscal cliff talk, a major portion of President Barack Obama's healthcare law hit a brick wall. Under the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, better known as the fiscal cliff bill,…

Kansas moved its Medicaid recipients at the start of this year onto a flat-fee managed care program called KanCare, in hopes the switch would lower costs or slow growth in spending for its Medicaid population.