Brooklyn Hospital Center President and CEO Gary Terrinoni believes more safety-net hospitals will be forced to close unless CMS starts reimbursing them more for care provided to Medicaid and Medicare patients, he told Spectrum News NY1 Nov. 19.

The South Dakota Supreme Court ruled that Yankton County is not responsible for paying the indigent care costs of 23 patients who were detained under mental health orders at Yankton-based Avera Sacred Heart Hospital.

In the U.S., fee-for-service medicine has long been cited as creating incentives for overuse of medical services, which ultimately leads to higher spending. But with structured fee negotiations and standardized prices, high-income countries like France, Germany and Japan have seen…

St. Louis-based Ascension saw its net income reach $1.2 billion in the first quarter of fiscal 2021, which ended Sept. 30, according to recently released financial documents. 

CMS chose 916 primary care practices and 37 regional health plan partners as participants in its new payment model called Primary Care First.

Nobody in healthcare expected 2020 to turn out the way it has for providers or their patients thanks to COVID-19.

Although Mayo Clinic's net operating income through the first nine months of 2020 is down 51.4 percent compared to 2019, the Rochester, Minn.-based system's operating margin was 3.6 percent, according to recently released financial documents.

Nineteen provider groups are urging Congress to lower the threshold requirements for the Quality Payment Program, established under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015.

In a recent press release, Alpha Health, the first Unified Automation™ company for revenue cycle management in healthcare, released results of a national survey designed to assess adoption of automation in revenue cycle operations at health systems and hospitals across the…

Banner Health's revenue increased year over year in the first three quarters of this year, but the Phoenix-based health system ended the period with a loss.