The nonprofit Intermountain Health would take full ownership of Idaho Falls Community Hospital, and expand its minority share in physician-owned Mountain View Hospital, if the deal with Surgery Partners goes through.

Hospital leaders who want to be ready for a mass casualty incident would do well to look for insights—and inspiration—from Samson Assuta Ashdod Medical Center.

Behnoosh Dashti, MD, lives and works as a family medicine physician in Maine. She crossed into Canada, where she is a citizen, only to renew a visa stamp necessary for her driver’s license.

A poll of parents shows a distressingly large portion of this demographic is at a loss when it comes to scheduling appointments, figuring out whether or not they need medical care and navigating the healthcare system. 

The hospital-at-home model is known to please patients, clinicians and administrators alike. Why is it stuck in a holding pattern rather than flying high? 

The figure comes from research by Fidelity Investments. The group said their estimate, updated annually, jumped 7.5% since last year.

How is it that pharma companies—and, by extension, health insurers that cover drugs—have targets on their backs while hospitals live like wallflowers?

After a 10-day trial, Emily Mitchell and her family were awarded the money by a unanimous nine-person jury. The woman was supposed to have a cyst on her ovary removed instead during the March 2023 procedure.

CMS officially began paying for street medicine services at the national level in 2023. This year finds the street-med model making much headway—and many headlines. 

The payer group said the new Lifestyle Spending Account will pay for the things not currently covered by other flexible spending accounts, such as consumer products to monitor nutrition and manage diabetes. The full list of options is presented in a new webstore.

The cardiologist, 63, was arrested on charges of rape, sexual battery and gross sexual imposition. The Brown County Sheriff's Office believes there are additional victims who have not yet come forward.

Along with radiology providers, Medicare’s failure to keep pace with inflation is harming patients, too, according to new Neiman Health Policy Institute research.