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Consumer Watchdog, a non-partisan consumer advocacy group, has called on the administration of President Barack Obama to make health reform waivers "the exception, not the rule."

In what Wall Street analysts are calling one of most contentious hostile takeover bids in recent memory, Tenet Healthcare filed a lawsuit in early April against Community Health Systems, charging CHS with admissions procedures that overbill Medicare.

The Department of Health and Human Services has announced a new program, developed under the Affordable Care Act, that's aimed at eliminating medical errors and reducing healthcare costs on a national scale.

Participatory medicine has become a trend with the potential to transform the healthcare industry, say its supporters.

Is it too early to start thinking about the 2012 elections and potential candidates' takes on healthcare? I don't think so.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid recently awarded 15 states contracts of up to $1 million each to design new ways to improve and coordinate care for the 9 million people in the country who are beneficiaries of both Medicare and Medicaid.

Congress has approved the repeal of a provision in the Affordable Care Act that would have required small businesses, including physicians, to file an IRS 1099 form starting in 2012 for each vendor purchase of $600 or more.

A landmark New York hospital that closed more than a year ago is being saved from bankruptcy through an innovative development deal.

While the Steward Health Care System may have run into a wall in its efforts to acquire a troubled Miami hospital, two more acquisitions closer to home are heading to fruition, extending the for-profit chain’s reach in its home state of Massachusetts.

The Iowa Health System, a seven-hospital system based in Des Moines, Iowa, and Methodist Health Services of Peoria, Ill., have entered into a non-binding letter of intent to explore a strategic partnership.