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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has updated its five-star quality ratings for nursing homes that will likely alter the current ratings.

The cost to implement information technology needed to meet federal mandates for value-based care is taking a financial toll on physician-owned multispecialty practices, according to the Medical Group Management Association.

For the first time, most employers consider specialty pharmacy as the highest driver of healthcare costs.

Cloud-service platforms and software applications can help healthcare organizations of all sizes tackle big data issues.

A Kaiser Health News analysis of the CMS data showed 1,621 hospitals having been fined 5 years in a row, earning payment reductions as high as 3 percent.

Consumers face steep rate hikes next year. Some will be forced to make a difficult choice: pay a higher price to keep their plans -- and doctors -- or switch plans to save money but risk losing their doctors.

The agency is distributing close to $6 billion in uncompensated care payments over the next fiscal year, a decrease of about $400 million.

The $117 million deal will only happen if regulators approve their merger.

Medicare beneficiaries in certain Iowa and Illinois counties will have more options come the next open enrollment period.

The federal government will punish more than half of the nation's hospitals -- a total of 2,597 -- for excess readmissions by withholding more than half a billion dollars in Medicare payments over the next year, records released Tuesday show.