Medicare & Medicaid

The problem is that sometimes Medicare pays for care outside the hospice benefit that it already paid hospice to cover.

Tax deals and donations were not enough to keep the facility open.

Texas health system offering patients more choice and nurturing its own health plan, even while collaborating with major insurers.

Obama administration tells state leaders that failing to expand Medicaid could jeopardize special funding to pay hospitals and doctors for treating the poor.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said it expects to include further discussion of the issue in the 2016 prospective payment systems proposal to be published this summer.

Florida Republican Gov. Rick Scott has said he will sue the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for allegedly threatening to withhold other federal funds if the state fails to adopt expansion.

Healthcare Finance has created a timeline of notable healthcare frauds in 2014, using data from Nashville-based Bass, Berry & Sims.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services assigns ratings to more than 3,500 hospitals, which it said will give consumers a clearer picture of quality when it comes to choosing a healthcare provider.

Tennessee-based Iasis, which operates acute-care hospitals, said its revised 2014 revenue will be $2.5 billion, $30 million less than previously thought.

The SGR repeal legislation could kill the proverbial two birds with one stone, replacing once and for all the unpopular SGR, while also supporting the Department of Health and Human Services' push for fee for value in general and ACOs in particular.