Jan. 3, 2013, has become a major deadline for the entire country as President Barack Obama and leaders in Congress try to avert the "fiscal cliff," also known as the sequestration plan.

Atlanta-based SunLink Health Systems has closed on a $2.1 million mortgage loan as it plans to acquire a 46,000-square-foot medical complex in Ellijay, Ga.

Last month, the Utah Hospital Association announced it would not endorse the healthcare law's Medicaid expansion, and Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare — touted by President Barack Obama as a model healthcare system — was one of the main cosignatories…

For healthcare providers, a patient missing an appointment is not only detrimental for care, but it is also synonymous with lost revenue for the hospital. In times of dollar-crunching, hospitals are deploying strategies to help patients remember their appointment dates,…

Although the healthcare reform law's health insurance exchanges are a little more than a year away from full operation, 35 percent of hospital and health system executives said they have not began conversations with payors about participation in exchanges, according…

President Barack Obama's re-election made for a big Wednesday last week for the country's largest for-profit hospital operators, but many of those companies coughed up those gains by the end of the week.

Here are six issues dealing with Medicare or Medicaid that occurred in the past week, starting with the most recent.

Swedish Medical Center in Seattle recently announced its Foundation had raised more than $100 million in its most ambitious capital campaign to date. The health system not only met but exceeded its goal — raising a total of $103 million…

Results from a poll conducted by KPMG shows healthcare payors are already participating or planning to participate in health insurance exchanges.

A tax break for for-profit hospitals, aimed at saving the state's Medicaid program, will cost Illinois $10 million a year in lost revenue, according to a Peoria Journal-Star report.