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The proposed regulations include a section on electronic health records and measures to better ensure that patients or their families are involved in care planning and in the discharge process.

Though many hospitals are trying their best to become more transparent, one in five hospitals will not commit to a policy to combat events that should never happen in a hospital, group says.

Once bitter rivals, healthcare providers in same markets are finding it's better to keep their enemies close, sharing services, health plans and purchasing power among them.

Pennsylvania-based Geisinger has developed five major bodies of oversight, each headed by a senior executive, and a centralized compliance office.

Healthcare Finance showcases its top five most popular videos from the first half of the year.

$12 million healthcare fraud case in Houston

In the first year, there is a zero percent discount; the second year, a one percent price cut; and in the third, fourth and fifth years, the two percent price cut goes into effect.

Slavitt to receive 'thorough consideration' Senate Marjority leader states.

The five-year mandatory model would give healthcare providers a standard set of quality measures, including measures for complications and readmissions.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services is calling on doctors, hospitals and health professionals to participate in a new aspect of the federal government's Million Hearts program, a national initiative to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes between 2012 and 2017.