[ad_1] Supplemental payments that aim to stabilize safety-not hospitals are often misallocated, a new study shows. Nearly a third of Medicaid disproportionate-share hospital payments in 2015—the latest data […]

[ad_1] Blue Shield of California is preparing to shed hundreds of jobs as it continues to challenge its exclusion from participating in the nation’s largest Medicaid program. The […]

[ad_1] Cybersecurity incidents within the healthcare industry continue at a high rate. Each year tens of millions of patients are affected by healthcare data breaches. Christopher Plummer, senior […]

[ad_1] The federal government plans to end in January the public health emergency it declared earlier this year after an outbreak of mpox infected more than 29,000 people […]

[ad_1] NEW YORK — The U.S. flu season keeps getting worse. Health officials said Friday that 7.5% of outpatient medical visits last week were due to flu-like illnesses. […]

[ad_1] Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health completed their merger, the nonprofit health systems said Friday. The combined organization has more than $27 billion in revenue, 67 hospitals—40 […]

[ad_1] The nation’s 988 hotline, intended to help anyone experiencing a mental health emergency, was back up and running Friday after a daylong outage. The call service, which […]

[ad_1] TeamHealth has notched a legal win against UnitedHealth Group, but the long-simmering dispute between the two companies continues. A Florida court ruled this month that the nation’s […]

[ad_1] Texas health officials are sounding the alarm as almost half of hospitals in the state are operating in the red. More than 9% of hospitals in the […]

[ad_1] The nation’s new 988 hotline, intended to help anyone experiencing a mental health emergency, has been out of service for several hours Thursday. Those trying to reach […]