The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released updated information regarding the payments it made to hospitals in fiscal year 2008 for outpatient procedures.

Baraga County Memorial Hospital in L'Anse, Mich., will receive a $28.3 million loan from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to build a new facility to replace the hospital's current facility, which was constructed in 1969, according to…

Hospital executives recently surveyed by the investment bank Leerink Swann projected a 4 percent decline in capital spending in 2009 over last year, dramatically smaller than the 13 percent decline they projected in July, according to a release from Leerink…

An analysis by Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota finds that hospitals in the state could lose $23 million to $150 million in reimbursements if a public option were included in national health reform, according to a report by…

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…