A California federal appeals court has halted a 5 percent cut in Medi-Cal rates for hospitals, ruling that the cuts were made without examining their effect on quality of care, the economy or access to health services, according to a…

A new study from the University of Massachusetts Medical School found that the proportion that employers, consumers and the state government were paying on healthcare coverage was the same in 2007 as they were a year before a new statewide…

The Los Angeles County public health system is facing a $344 million deficit in the fiscal year that begins in July, according to a report from the Los Angeles Times.

HCTrends.com, a healthcare tracking firm, found that Milwaukee-area hospitals' revenue from inpatient care decreased by $45 million from Oct. 2008 through Feb. 2009, according to a report in The Business Journal of Milwaukee.

Cuts are expected in the subsidies that the government pays health insurers to run private Medicare programs in 2010, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

Nearly 60 percent of Maryland hospitals have sustained financial losses, according to a Maryland Hospital Association news release.

Bill Terrano joined MEI Financial Services as the new director of credit, according to an MEI news release.

Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell has rejected a proposal by the University of Connecticut Medical Center and Hartford Healthcare to build a new $475 million hospital in Farmington, Conn., according to a report by the Hartford Courant.

Forum Health Hospitals, based in Youngstown, Ohio, voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to a Forum Health news release.

Detroit Medical Center and Henry Ford Health System, also in Detroit, both posted gains for 2008, despite incurring losses due to unpaid medical bills and the struggling economy, according to a report from The Detroit News.