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Many aspects of the current healthcare system could possibly undergo seismic changes as Congress considers healthcare reform. These Olympian struggles are being closely monitored by Peter Mandell, MD, the new chair of the Council on Advocacy at the American Academy…

The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General has issued an advisory opinion for a critical hospital that provides free blood pressure screenings on request to walk-in visitors, according to a news release from the American…

A big casualty of the congressional health care reform legislation would be the loss of state flexibility in the financing and delivery of affordable health care options for their citizens.

The HHS Office of Inspector General expects to recover of more than $2.4 billion for healthcare fraud, waste and abuse in the first half of fiscal year 2009, according to an OIG release.

Trinity Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala., which dropped plans for a hospital in Irondale, Ala., so it could complete an abandoned HealthSouth project nearby, is being sued by the City of Irondale for breach of contract, according to a release…

Here is a list of ten of the top hospital news stories from www.BeckersHospitalReview.com from July.

Virginia-based Carilion Clinic has offered to sell two outpatient centers it acquired last year following an antitrust complaint by the Federal Trade Commission stating that the acquisition eliminated Carilion's competition in the area, according to a report by the Roanoke…

Sue Nanda of Costa Mesa, Calif., was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to recruiting patients for unnecessary cosmetic surgeries as part of a $154 million insurance fraud scheme, according to a report in The Orange County…

Cathleen M. Rohling, COO of GastroIntestinal Associates in Wausau, Wis., says of tort reform, "Set national caps on damages similar to those in states like Wisconsin that have injured patient programs in place. This equalizes medical malpractice exposures across the…

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released its final rule for the hospital inpatient and long-term care prospective payment system for the fiscal year 2010, which includes an average 1.6 percent increase in inpatient payments, according to a report…