Acute Care

The deal comes five years after Humana spent $790 million to buy Concentra, a network of 300 urgent care and physical centers and 245 work-site clinics in 38 states.

Senate Republicans on Thursday introduced a bill to repeal the provision of the Affordable Care Act that mandates individuals to get health insurance or pay a penalty.

Providence Health in the northwest and Novant Health in the southeast are pushing population health, high technology and other options that are creating value and improving care.

Program costs more than $140 billion, leaders say, but temporary 'doc fix' keeps physicians from serious reimbursement cuts.

New payment models and technology in healthcare are bringing big changes to the hospital controller job as "following the money" has become more complicated than ever.

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has recommended a 3.5 percent increase in the rates paid for inpatient and outpatient hospital procedures in 2016. The group also wants to level the field between what is paid to hospitals and physician offices.

Health system will cut its workforce of 90,500 by 1.7 percent amid some hefty losses incurred in the expansion.