California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed legislation to levy fees from hospitals that would be used to qualify for $2 billion in federal matching grants for Medicaid, but he said a second bill would have to be passed before the…

The Mayo Clinic has announced that it will stop treating Medicaid patients from Montana and Nebraska as of Jan. 1, unless they have rare diagnoses that cannot be treated elsewhere according to a report by the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Medicaid reimbursements to physicians and facilities could drastically decline, as could the number of eligible Medicaid enrollees, when federal stimulus funds currently used to help state Medicaid programs avoid these reductions runs out, according to a report by American Medical…

A new report from the New Jersey Hospital Association shows that the state's 73 acute-care hospitals contributed $18 billion in total expenditures and was the second highest employer in the state in 2008.

Nantucket (Mass.) Cottage Hospital reported a $4 million loss to its bottom line, citing decreases in insurance reimbursement, philanthropic donations and return on investments, according to a report in the Cape Cod Times.

Although 80 percent of the $718 million in new state fees that Ohio hospitals are paying is expected to be returned to them in Medicaid payments, many hospitals expect to get much less than that back and end up with…

A growing number of patients across the United States are finding a facility fee in addition to the traditional physician's fee on their medical bills for physician office visits, according to a report by the Washington Post.

Hospitals and insurers are opposing changes to the latest Senate healthcare reform bill that would reduce penalties for individuals who do not enroll in health plans, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

The HHS Office of Inspector General has issued its Work Plan that describes kinds of healthcare activities it will be scrutinize and possibly investigate and prosecute in fiscal year 2010, according to a release by the Office of the HHS…

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) is proposing a 0.5 percent increase in Medicare reimbursements for physicians in 2011 and 2012, rather than a one-year fix in reimbursements proposed by Sen. Max Baucus in his health reform bill, according to a…