Naya Kehayes, managing principal and CEO of Eveia Health Consulting and Management, recommends hospitals and other providers ask payors these three questions regarding confidentiality within managed care contracts during negotiations.

Revenue cycle firm Craneware released its fiscal year 2012 results, and its revenue swelled 8 percent from FY 2011.

Every week, Becker's Hospital Review will begin monitoring the stock prices of the largest for-profit hospital operators in the country.

The National Committee for Quality Assurance has named its top 20 private health insurance plans of 2012, and Boston-based Harvard Pilgrim Health Care was rated as the top overall plan based on clinical performance, member satisfaction and NCQA accreditation.

Anthem Blue Cross in California is shutting out two of the largest healthcare providers in the Los Angeles area — Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and UCLA Health System — from one of its health plans because the health systems are "too…

Here are 10 issues dealing with Medicare or Medicaid that occurred in the past week, starting with the most recent.

It's no secret the United States spends more on its healthcare system on a gross domestic product basis than most other industrialized nations, and it may be helpful to look at the causes of that spending in order to curtail…

Non-profit hospitals face a tough Medicare reimbursement road ahead following the release of the Office of Management and Budget's report on sequestration cuts, according to a report from Fitch Ratings.

Amerinet has partnered with Princeton (W. Va.) Community Hospital to save around $1 million in energy costs.

Earlier this week, Fitch Ratings released a report on the operating trends at the largest for-profit hospital operators in the country, noting that revenue in the second quarter climbed an average of 3.7 percent despite weak admissions.