A May 2009 survey of nearly 1,300 healthcare providers found that almost half of healthcare providers do not know the amount a patient will owe them at the time of service, according to a news release from NaviNet, a healthcare…

Here is a list of the 10 most expensive medical conditions treated in U.S. hospitals by average hospital costs, with average hospital charges, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project 2007 national statistics.

Martin Winter, a managing director with Alvarez & Marsal and co-head of the Healthcare Industry Group, discusses trends in hospitals leading up to the economic downfall and provides his insight on how hospitals will come out of the "Great Recession."

New data from The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania show that the average total margin for general acute care hospitals in the state are at -3.59 percent for the period from July 2008-Mar. 2009, a 7.8 percentage point drop…

Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA has doubled its net income to $282 million in the second quarter of 2009 from $141 million in the second quarter of 2008, according to a report by the Tampa Bay Business Journal.

Tenet Healthcare Corp., which operates hospitals in urban areas, and Health Management Associates, which operates non-urban hospitals, raised their full-year guidance, indicative of a trend of increased profits due to reined-in costs, according to a report in the Wall Street…

Grady Health System in Atlanta, Ga., has been ordered to pay $20 million to the state for overpayments by Medicaid made to the facility from 2004-2005, according to a report in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Here is a list of the average length of stay, charges and costs per patient for hospitals by region of the United States, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project 2007 national statistics.

Here is a list of the top 10 most costly procedures and their average costs at hospitals in the United States, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project 2007 national statistics.

Boston-based Partners HealthCare has agreed to pay $2.7 million to resolve a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Labor, alleging that more than 700 employees of the health system were not paid overtime as required by law, according to…