The Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission approved a 1.77 percent increase on what its 47 state hospitals can charge their patients, according to a report in the Baltimore Business Journal.

Here are the 10 states with the highest and lowest adjusted expenses per inpatient day, which includes all operating and non-operating expenses incurred for both inpatient and outpatient care, at state and local government-controlled hospitals, according to the Kaiser Family…

Here are the 10 states with the highest and lowest adjusted expenses per inpatient day, which includes all operating and non-operating expenses incurred for both inpatient and outpatient care, at for-profit hospitals, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation's analysis of…

Here are the 10 states with the highest and lowest adjusted expenses per inpatient day, which includes all operating and non-operating expenses incurred for both inpatient and outpatient care, at non-profit hospitals, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation's analysis of…

The Department of Health and Human Services' budget for fiscal year 2010 will be $879 billion, which includes a health care reserve fund of $635 billion over 10 years to finance health reform that brings down costs, improves quality and…

Several Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association members are sending surveys to hospitals, asking about the payments they receive from different payors, according to an American Hospital Association news release.

CMS' announced proposed fiscal 2010 payment rates that, if adopted, would result in a net one-half percent average cut to 3,5000 acute care hospitals and 400 long-term care hospitals, beginning Oct. 1, 2009, was not viewed fondly by the American…

Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm issued an executive order to cut $304 million from the state's general fund budget, which included a 4 percent reduction in Medicaid reimbursement for healthcare providers, according to a report in Crain's Detroit Business.

The Henry Ford Health System reported $8.5 million in revenue for 2008, despite $45 million in investment losses, marking its sixth consecutive year of positive revenue growth, according to a report in the Detroit Free Press.

A Massachusetts state commission plans to recommend that healthcare insurers reimburse physicians and hospitals with a set payment that is intended to cover the care of each patient for the entire year, according to a report by the Boston Globe.