Rankings and Ratings

Here is a list of the top 10 hospitals with the highest grossing emergency departments by outpatient charges in the United States, rounded to the nearest hundred thousand, according to the American Hospital Directory.

Here are the 12 principal CCS body system and condition categories with the highest average annual growth in costs for inpatient stays, according to the HCUP Facts and Figures: Statistics on Hospital-Based Care in the United States, 2007 report. Note:…

Note: Hospital systems are listed in order by number of hospitals in the organization, according to information from the American Hospital Directory. Systems with the same number of hospitals in their network are listed alphabetically by state.

Hospitals with fewer than 300 beds in smaller markets deliver better value than larger hospitals in big urban areas, according to a release from Data Advantage.

Consumer Reports has ranked five affiliates of National Surgical Hospitals as the highest ranking hospitals in their respective states, according to a National Surgical Hospitals news release.

Here are the top 10 hospitals with the highest grossing neurology departments (with figures rounded to the nearest hundred million) based on Medicare charges, according to data from the American Hospital Directory.

Consumer Reports has ranked Animas Surgical Hospital, a physician-owned hospital in Durango, Colo., as the top hospital in the state.

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…