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.

Responding to President Obama's challenge to Republicans, "If you have a better idea, show it to me," Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and John Goodman, president and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis came up with 10 of…

The board of the Tennessee Hospital Association voted to recommend a one-year tax on the gross revenue of the state's non-government hospitals, according to a story in The Commercial Appeal.

In an unusual step for health insurers, UnitedHealthcare has begun sending individualized reports to physicians showing their rate of compliance with standards of care on cancer treatments, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

Now that it's less likely that Congress will pass a health reform bill, hospital stocks have dropped as much as 20 percent from their January peaks, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

Markets that have multiple hospitals that compete with each other have lower costs than those with little or no competition, according to a new study in the American Journal of Managed Care.