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In its annual Community Benefit Report, the Minnesota Hospital Association announced that the state's nonprofit hospitals and health systems chipped in more than $4.3 billion in programs and services in 2014 to benefit community health. That's an uptick of 4.6 percent compared to the previous year.

More than one-third of hospitals aren't meeting National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators performance metrics, a new Ohio State University study on chief nurse executives finds.

In December 2014, Medicare began a pilot program in three states, including Pennsylvania, to cut down on what officials believed were improper payments, including some possible fraud and abuse, in nonemergency ambulance services. The program moved to more aggressively enforce Medicare's long-standing policy requiring that beneficiaries be so weak they could only be moved on a stretcher before it would pay for repeated, nonemergency ambulance service.

In general, both praise and criticisms of the law are accurate. That's because the health law is so big and sweeping that it has had effects both positive and negative. Here is a brief guide to some things the health law has -- and has not -- accomplished since it was signed by President Barack Obama in 2010.

Twenty major companies, including American Express, Verizon, Coca-Cola and HCA have joined the newly-launched Health Transformation Alliance to combine data on the population health of their employees, and potentially flex their muscle with insurance companies and big pharma, according to Tevi Troy, president of the American Health Policy Institute.

Twenty major companies, including American Express, Verizon, Coca-Cola and HCA have joined the newly-launched Health Transformation Alliance to combine data on the population health of their employees, and potentially flex their muscle with insurance companies and big pharma, according to Tevi Troy, president of the American Health Policy Institute.

Financial challenges once again ranked as the top concern for hospital chief executive officers in 2015, according to a new study by the American College of Healthcare Executives. Patient safety and quality, and governmental mandates came in as the 2nd and 3rd highest concerns.

Northwell Health, which until January was known as the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, will air its first-ever Super Bowl ads during Sunday's game -- a 30-second spot in the second quarter, and two 30-second ads that will run during pre-game coverage.

Healthcare businesses added more than 37,000 jobs in January, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Friday, as the first month of 2016 seemed to extend the sector's job-creating trend over the past year.

Nearly a third of patients who get colonoscopies to screen for cancer visit a gastroenterologist before having the procedure, at an average cost of $124, even though such visits may be unnecessary, a new study found.