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As appropriations are trimmed and payments decline, hospitals in the archipelago state making steep cuts to hold back the losses.

The HHS grants were doled out across all 50 states, with separate amounts earmarked for major metropolitan areas in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.

Deal gives provider ability to participate in the state's health insurance exchange with its narrow network.

A hospital acquiring medical practices is not news. But hospitals having enough managers who can integrate and manage medical practices in a hospital-controlled environment is news.

Department of Health and Human Services says plans lacking substantial coverage of hospital and physician services don't qualify as "minimum value" coverage.

Conditions include keeping all the hospitals open 10 years -- with four of them as acute care facilities -- maintaining charity care and community benefit spending, participating in Medicaid and providing essential health and reproductive services.

Connecting CFOs and clinicians on population health initiatives involves understanding how each group's environment influences decision-making.

Healthcare workers should treat hospitalized measles patients with Vitamin A, according to a new recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and all providers should be prepared in advance for documentation.

The bacterial outbreak at a Los Angeles hospital highlights shortcomings in the federal government's efforts to avert the most lethal hospital infections, which are becoming increasingly impervious to treatment.

Productivity grew 0.78 percent for heart attacks, 0.62 percent for heart failure, and 1.90 percent for pneumonia.