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Since the fines began, national readmission rates have dropped, but roughly one of every five Medicare patients sent to the hospital ends up returning within a month.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the State of Rhode Island are contracting with a Medicare-Medicaid plan to provide integrated benefits to approximately 30,000 eligible enrollees.

Community Health Systems is spinning off a group of rural hospitals and aiming to compete in larger metropolitan areas.

While bottom line impact may be tough to measure when it comes to financial investment, patients just want their own bottoms covered.

Accredited hospitals that offer advanced services, are major teaching institutions and have better performance and outcome measures are penalized more frequently than other providers for hospital-acquired conditions, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association that claims to have exposed a major flaw with program.

People enrolling in public health insurance exchanges are more willing to switch plans, placing pressure on insurers to continually win over shoppers based on price, product and service, according to a new report by Deloitte.

Financial pressures are causing a growing number of U.S. doctors to leave private practice for hospital employment, according to a new report by Accenture.

While hospitals in Maryland have not brought down the state's total costs of care, the all-payer system seems promising enough to state and federal leaders under universal healthcare coverage.

Seven years after Congress passed a landmark law banning discrimination in the treatment of mentally ill people, many families and their advocates complain it stubbornly persists, largely because insurers are subverting the law in subtle ways and the government is not aggressively enforcing it.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will lift the rate it pays inpatient hospitals in 2016 by 0.9 percent, the agency announced Friday, as long as facilities participate in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program and demonstrate meaningful use through the use of electronic health records.