Category: Modern Healthcare

The owners of a New Hampshire provider stopped caring for 16 veterans as of Friday because they were unable to get about $60,000 in bills paid by the Veterans Affairs Department.

Providence Health and Services has been sued by a data analysis firm that claimed the 50-hospital system pushed its doctors to add complications or comorbidities to treatment documents so they could get higher Medicare reimbursement.

Montefiore’s Burke Rehabilitation Hospital opened what it says is the U.S.’ first family-caregiver resource center in a rehab hospital. They’re also rare in acute-care hospitals, but efforts to reduce readmissions could convince hospitals to add…

More young nurses are opting to get advanced degrees, which could help fill gaps in primary care. But it could also take them away from patients’ bedsides, according to a new survey.

Advocacy groups sued to block Arkansas’ Medicaid work requirement in federal court, two months after they won a federal ruling halting Kentucky’s similar waiver program.

The Trump administration reportedly is nearing completion of a new immigration rule that healthcare providers and plans fear will harm public health and their ability to serve millions of low-income children and families.

Adventist Health System, including nearly 50 hospitals and more than 80,000 employees, will change its name to AdventHealth on Jan. 2, the health system announced Tuesday.

A $375 million investment from Google’s parent company, Alphabet, will help Oscar Health launch Medicare Advantage plans and deepen its presence in the individual and small business markets.

Activist investor Carl Icahn will no longer urge stockholders to vote down the proposed merger between Cigna Corp. and Express Scripts after two independent advisory firms recommended voters approve the deal.

The country’s largest public health information exchange will use Verato’s Universal MPI for referential patient matching, which it says will reduce uncertainty when linking patients to their health data.