Category: Modern Healthcare

Bon Secours has won a battle over turf to expand hospital services in the northern reaches of a Virginia city.

A federal judge in Washington has thrown out HHS’ massive cuts to hospitals’ 340B program, which could affect the future of the Trump administration’s drug pricing plan.

After the passage of a new rule back in April, hospitals across the country are about to make their prices publicly available on the internet.

A spokesman for the Republican-led Ohio House says lawmakers gathering for a rare post-Christmas voting session won’t attempt to override GOP Gov. John Kasich’s veto that protected Medicaid expansion.

The Idaho attorney general’s office calls a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a voter-passed Medicaid expansion initiative meritless.

Some healthcare industry groups warn that a Trump administration proposal to let employers offer workers tax-free accounts to buy individual health plans could cause mass confusion and damage ACA markets.

Knoxville, Tenn.-based Tennova Healthcare, part of Community Health Systems, will close two Tennessee hospitals this week.

Ohio’s Republican legislative leaders may call a vote this week on rolling back outgoing GOP Gov. John Kasich’s Medicaid expansion.

With congressional action to repeal the Affordable Care Act off the table in 2018, the Trump administration and the states engaged in a tense push and pull through the year between expanding, not expanding, and limiting Medicaid eligibility.

Hospital at Home provides hospital-level service in the patient’s own home at a fraction of the cost of hospitalization. Health systems are prepared to launch such programs, which would save Medicare hundreds of millions of dollars, once an…