America’s Essential Hospitals has announced a new advocacy and advertising campaign seeking a delay in cuts to Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments, which are set to be reduced by $2 billion in the current fiscal year.

The expansion of Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) made hospitals less likely to close, especially in rural markets, according to study published in the January edition of Health Affairs.

In a report touting the contributions physicians make to the U.S. economy, the American Medical Association said physicians were supporting more jobs, tax revenues, wages and generating more economic activity in 2015 than they were three years earlier.

Tenet Healthcare has reached an agreement with Baylor Scott & White Health to restructure their two-year-old joint venture involving five North Texas hospitals.

Minnesota hospitals may be paid anywhere from $6,186 to $46,974 for a knee replacement, raising questions about why the same procedures can have such wildly different prices within the same state.

Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston have found the implementation of an emergency department (ED) care coordination program could reduce costs and admission rates, according to a study published in the American Journal of Managed Care.

Analysts at A.M. Best have revised their outlook for the health insurance industry from negative to stable for 2018, saying the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchange business that dragged down profits in 2014 and 2015 has improved thanks to rate increases and narrower provider networks.

Eight months after a signing a definitive agreement to merge, Edison, New Jersey-based systems Hackensack Meridian Health and JFK Health have finalized their combination into the largest health system in New Jersey.