The number of hospital admissions for the uninsured increased by 34 percent from 1997-2006, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

More than half (53 percent) of Americans skipped medical care in the past year due to cost, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation's first healthcare tracking poll of 2009.

Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) introduced a bill in the House under which the federal government would act as a single payor, according to a news release from his office.

In an effort to eliminate errors and to promote patient safety, Washington state hospitals have adopted new standardized systems, according to a news release from the Washington State Hospital Association.

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…