Stocks for the major for-profit hospital operators were down nearly across the board last week after President Barack Obama's healthcare law underwent sharp criticism during last Wednesday's presidential debate.

More hospitals are boosting their rehabilitation services in an effort to treat the patient through the continuum of care and manage population health. One of the challenges of rehabilitation is maintaining accurate documentation. Gerry Stone, PT, MEd, founder and chief…

American Hospital Association President and CEO Rich Umbdenstock has written a letter to the New York Times, agreeing with the newspaper's call for more federal oversight of hospital billing.

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

San Francisco-based Dignity Health (pdf) recently released its fiscal year 2012 results, and net income took a major hit, as it fell 86.2 percent from 2011 to 2012.

In a 3-2 vote, the board of the Mendocino Coast Health Care District said it would file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection, according to a Mendocino Beacon report.

An analysis by human resources firm Aon Hewitt found that U.S. employer-based health premiums grew at the lowest rate in six years.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released an ICD-10 planning checklist for payors and providers in the middle of the transition or just beginning.

The Green Mountain Care Board — the committee that control's the growth rate of healthcare costs in Vermont — has established budgets for the state's 14 hospitals for fiscal year 2013, and hospital net patient revenue will increase 5.1 percent.

Several Georgia hospital organizations have fired back at anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist, who recently said a renewal of the Georgia Medicaid provider fee would raise healthcare costs and eliminate job growth, according to a Georgia Health News report.