Rankings and Ratings

The American Medical Association has released its second annual National Health Insurer Report Card, which measures health insurers on the timeliness, transparency and accuracy of their claims processing.

The Illinois Department of Public Health will begin publishing performance data on Illinois' hospitals beginning Oct. 2009, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.

U.S. News & World Report has released its list of "America's Best Hospitals" and has named 21 hospitals to its Honor Roll, which recognizes hospitals that ranked at or near the top of at least six of the publication's 16…

Here are the top 20 acute care short term hospitals with the highest gross outpatient revenues (with figures rounded to the nearest hundred million), according to data from the American Hospital Directory.

U.S. News & World Report released its list of "America's Best Children's Hospitals" and has named 10 hospitals to its Honor Roll.

Here are the top 10 for-profit hospitals by gross revenue (with figures rounded to the nearest hundred million), according to data from the American Hospital Directory.

Here are the top 10 non-profit hospitals by gross revenue (with figures rounded to the nearest hundred million), according to data from the American Hospital Directory.

Here are the top 10 government-owned hospitals by gross revenue (with figures rounded to the nearest hundred million), according to data from the American Hospital Directory.

Recent rankings by Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth, a leading provider of internet-based business services to physician practices, and Physicians Practice show that national health insurers are paying physicians 5.3 percent faster and denying 9.0 percent fewer medical claims over the prior…

At 46, George Pillari shrinks from being called the "grandfather of hospital quality rankings."