Congressional Democrats are considering extending a temporary increase of Medicaid funding for states, the enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages, for another six months, according to a report by Politico.

Congress has a week to extend federal COBRA subsides to help the newly unemployed buy health insurance, according to a report by Kaiser Health News.

With only a week left before a 21.3 percent fee cut goes into effect, the Democratic leadership in Congress is proposing a three-year fix that would pay primary care physicians more than specialists for the first time, according to a…

Under a bill just passed by the Massachusetts Senate, hospitals with large capital reserves would contribute to the state $100 million total to help reduce healthcare costs for small employers, according to a report by the Boston Globe.

Alliance (Ohio) Community Hospital is paying patients at competing hospitals $100 to provide their bills showing what was charged and what the insurer paid, according to a report by American Medical News.

The prices for selected healthcare industries rose 0.2 percent in April from the previous month, with hospitals seeing a 0.1 percent increase, according to information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Producer Price Index.

San Ramon, Calif.-based Hill Physicians Medical Group, which represents around 3,000 physicians in Northern California, reported nearly $4.7 million in net income for 2009 on $419 million in revenue, according to a report in the Sacramento Business Journal.

The board of two-hospital Houston Healthcare System in Warner Robins, Ga., has terminated CEO Grady W. “Skip” Philips, effective immediately, according to a report by Macon.com.

The Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission said neither Adventist HealthCare nor Holy Cross Hospital — both of which are vying to build the next new hospital in Montgomery County — can afford to take on such a construction project,…

Riverdale, Ga.-based Southern Regional Health System's financial troubles continue as Moody's Investment Service downgraded the hospital's bond rating to "junk" status, highlighting weak financial performance since 2007, according to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.