UMass Memorial Medical Center, the flagship facility of UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester, Mass., has sold its clinical and anatomic pathology outreach laboratory businesses to Quest Diagnostics.

Both the House of Representatives and Senate have passed legislation — the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (pdf) — which will temporarily avoid the long-discussed fiscal cliff of tax hikes and spending cuts.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott and other Republicans have agreed to require — pending federal approval — the state's Medicaid recipients to enroll in managed-care plans in hopes of keeping healthcare costs down and better coordinating medical services, according to a…

Hartford, Conn.-based insurer Aetna has agreed to pay $1 million to Washington state for violations of policy and documentation rules, according to a report by the Hartford Courant.

Although Medicare Advantage programs, under which providers receive a flat monthly rate instead of traditional fees for each service, aren’t yet proven to save Medicare money, many patient indicators like costly hospital stays have dropped under such plans, according to…

When it comes to healthcare stocks and shares, few enjoyed a better 2012 than for-profit hospital companies. This past year involved the Supreme Court upholding President Barack Obama's 2010 healthcare law, and for-profit hospital operators stand to gain a lot…

Health insurer Wellpoint announced it had completed its $4.9 billion acquisition of Amerigroup, a managed care organization based in Virginia Beach, Va. Amerigroup coordinates care for 2.7 million customers in 12 states who are enrolled in Medicaid or similar state…

When hospitals got onboard with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, there was a sense there would be a tradeoff: disproportionate share hospital payments would be reduced drastically, but the expansion of Medicaid for more uninsured patients would offset…

President Barack Obama is returning to Washington, D.C., today, cutting short his holiday vacation, to prompt further negotiations to avoid the fiscal cliff. However, senior officials in both parties are beginning to resign to the fact a deal to avoid…

Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding, Calif., part of Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare Services, has stopped billing Medicare for a rare malnutrition disorder after it faced criticism last year for inordinately high billing of the disease, according to a California…