Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina announced an investment in FastMed Urgent Care to promote appropriate use of emergency departments.

For hospitals and health systems, adopting ICD-10 is a lot like painting a house. Before painting can begin, there must be some type of analysis to know how the costs of painting will impact a family's budget. Next, all of…

The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is one of the largest health systems in the country and a healthcare behemoth within Pittsburgh. However, a four-part series from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette examines UPMC's real estate portfolio and whether it should still…

Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare (pdf) released a new four-point plan today that is centered on accelerating the rate of growth for the business and its shareholders.

In fiscal year 2011, donations to non-profit hospitals, which include cash gifts and pledges, rose 8.2 percent to a total of $8.94 billion, according to a report from the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy.

Stocks for the major for-profit hospital operators remained relatively tepid last week after a positive overall September.

Moody's Investors Service has officially placed the Caa1 bond rating of West Penn Allegheny Health System under review after the Pittsburgh-based entity canceled its affiliation agreement with Highmark.

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

In fiscal year 2010, 37 percent of hospitals and health systems committed their investable asset portfolios to fixed income, the highest of any asset class, according to a study from the Commonfund Institute.

Executives at Holy Cross Hospital in Taos, N.M., have asked Taos County to increase property taxes to help pay for hospital facilities and services, according to a Taos News report.