The Michigan State Medical Society and the Michigan Osteopathic Association urged the state's lawmakers to reject a tax on physicians that Gov. Jennifer Granholm included in her proposed budget.

Steven Z. Taylor, vice president of finance for the Fargo Operating Division of Catholic Health Initiatives, shares his thoughts here on five ways hospitals can manage their labor costs. Taylor oversees 12 critical access hospitals in CHI's Fargo division. CHI…

Unless Congress acts, the federal COBRA subsidy to help laid-off workers pay for health insurance will expire May 31, and on Feb. 28 new applicants won't have access to the subsidies, according to the Kansas City Star.

President Obama highlights the unsustainable rate of growth of healthcare spending and renews a call for healthcare reform proposals that stalled late last year in his Economic Report of the President to Congress, released Feb. 11.

Following a two-hour meeting with Congressional Republicans, President Obama held a news conference in which he laid out the kind of reforms he would consider, according to a transcript from the White House.

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm is expected to include a 3 percent tax on physicians' gross receipts as part of her budget proposal to the state legislature, the Detroit Free Press reports.

Pittsburgh-based Highmark, Pennsylvania's largest Blues-affiliated insurer, is protesting an information request from the state insurance department, saying that the state is overstepping its authority in conducting reviews of the state's four Blues carriers, according to a report in American Medical…

Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell's proposed $29 billion budget for fiscal year 2010-2011 includes a $73.4 million cut to Medicaid payments to hospitals, according to a report by the Philadelphia Business Journal.

In an unusually direct and public confrontation, the CEO of the American Hospital Association took the CEO of WellPoint, the nation's largest health insurer, to task for saying hospitals cause healthcare inflation during an interview with the opinion editor of…

If health reforms are not enacted, there will be higher numbers of uninsured, an erosion of employer-sponsored coverage, increased spending on public programs and big increases in out-of-pocket insurance costs, according to a report by the Urban Institute.