The Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council has bid on several million dollars in federal loan grants to launch a Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan, according to a Crain's Chicago Business report.

CMS announced that it will no longer cover most uses of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation for chronic low back pain.

In 2011, national healthcare expenditures only grew 3.9 percent due to the continued economic slog, which is similar to 2010, and the total 2011 national healthcare expenditure figure was $2.7 trillion compared with $2.59 trillion in 2010, according to CMS…

Since July 2008, Jim Budzinski has been the executive vice president and CFO of WellStar Health System, and he has helped the Marietta, Ga.-based system shore up its finances and credit into a solid and stable state.

Times are tough for hospitals within the broader context of the healthcare system, and safety-net hospitals have even less to work with than the average U.S. hospital.

When the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act went live in 2010, Medicare Advantage plans witnessed reductions to Medicare payments, but enrollment in MA plans — also known as Medicare Part C — is still on the rise, according to…

Administrative costs in the U.S. healthcare system represent roughly $361 billion per year, or 14 percent of all national healthcare expenditures, but tackling those costs through integration, coordination and leadership could save an estimated $40 billion per year, according to…

Cheryl Sadro was named CFO of Memorial Health Care System in Chattanooga, Tenn., this past January, and she is now responsible for one of the financially strongest health systems in the area.

Hospital care takes up the largest portion of national healthcare expenditures in the United States, and care from physicians and other professionals sits solidly in second, according to statistics from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Maryland is the only state in the country that has a unique board that sets Medicare rates for hospitals, but the system is currently facing challenges to remain in existence, according to a Baltimore Sun report.