Nevada's Assembly and Senate health committees are reviewing four bills that could increase state control over surgical centers, according to a report by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

A study conducted by the University of Connecticut Health Center and the Massachusetts Medical Society showed that the cost of defensive medicine — tests, procedures, referrals, hospitalizations, or prescriptions ordered by physicians fearful of lawsuits — is "huge and widespread,"…

The number of uninsured Americans will rise from 45 million in 2009 to 54 million in 2019, according to Senate testimony by Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf.

Here are the percentages of primary-care physicians who did not accept new patients listed by expected payment source, based on 2004 data from the National Ambulatory Medical Center Survey.

Here are the top 20 most common principal diagnoses among hospitalized Medicare enrollees age 65 and older in 2006, as based upon data fro 13 states with reporting on type of Medicare enrollment, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research…

All 65 of South Carolina’s acute-care hospitals have agreed to collaborate in a quality program to reduce preventable infections and trim the costs of treating them, according to the South Carolina Hospital Association, Health Sciences South Carolina and the Premier…

A new report from the American Medical Association (AMA) reveals that most markets are dominated by one or two health insurers.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released uniform policies to prevent Medicare and its beneficiaries from paying for three so-called “never events” — serious, preventable errors, according to a CMS news release.

Resurrection Health Care, based in Chicago, and Advocate Health Care, based in Oak Brook, Ill., have agreed to settle class actions lawsuits brought on behalf of uninsured patients, according to a news release from Resurrection Health Care and a report…

Dick Hanley, president and CEO of Broomfield, Colo.-based Health Inventures, which specializes in developing and managing ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) and imaging centers, often brokering partnerships between hospitals and physicians, offers the following six predictions and assessments relating to physician/hospital…