Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates is curtailing patient referrals to Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital in an attempt to better coordinate care, opting to handle most patients at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, according to a report in the Boston Globe.

There is no definitive link showing that hospitals with lower costs and expenditures offer lower quality of care, according to the findings of a new study of Medicare patients conducted by The Commonwealth Fund and published in the Feb. 22…

Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City (Mo.) and North Kansas City (Mo.) Hospital have signed a contract with Mid America Heart and Lung Surgeons that will create a new hospital-physician practice to serve both hospitals, according to a report by…

Surgeons who perform high volumes of minimally invasive procedures report suffering various types of pain, from eye strain to hand, leg, shoulder and back pain, according to a survey of surgeons conducted by the University of Maryland School of Medicine…

President Obama has released his proposal for a health reform bill, which he will carry into a televised meeting on health reform with Democrat and Republican Congressional leaders on Thursday.

The chief impetus of Medicare spending from 1987-2006 moved from inpatient hospital services to outpatient treatment of chronic conditions, according to a study published in Health Affairs.

Marc Halley, CEO of Halley Consulting Group in Westerville, Ohio, has worked for many years with hospital-owned medical practice networks across the country, facilitating financial turnarounds, organizing effective governance between employed physicians and hospital executives and developing methods to improve…

More than 3 million people enrolled in Medicaid in the year ended in June 2009, pushing enrollment to a record 46.8 million, according to data published by the Kaiser Family Foundation and cited in a Washington Post story.

President Obama is expected to release a new healthcare reform legislation over the weekend, before his healthcare summit with Republicans scheduled for next week, according to a report by the New York Times.

Organizers of a Feb. 27 symposium on women in surgery at the University of South Florida hope to raise women's current 6 percent share of the surgeon population, according to a release from the University of South Florida.