The Rural Community Hospital Demonstration Program, which aims to test payments to rural facilities under a “reasonable cost-based methodology” for Medicare inpatient services, has 17 returning and 13 new participants as part of a five-year extension of the program.

Four finalists have been chosen to take over operations of the 335-bed Indian River Medical Center in Vero Beach, Florida, with the highest bid coming from for-profit operator HCA at $415 million.

Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston have found digital pills could monitor opioid use after surgery, according to a study published in Anesthesia & Analgesia.

Interest in AI technologies like voice search, assistants and chatbot are increasing as more patients takes steps to management their care, according to the DRG Digital - Manhattan Research's Cybercitizen Health U.S. 2017 study.

Patients often assume that by going to a hospital in their insurance network they will avoid any big bills, but many in Texas are finding out too late their emergency room visit included care from an out-of-network physician.

A California judge ruled Sacramento-based Sutter Health “intentionally destroyed” 192 boxes of documents which were sought in an antitrust lawsuit against the not-for-profit health system.

A large minority (42 percent) of Medicare Part B beneficiaries will have their premium rise from $109 to $134 for 2018, CMS announced on Nov. 17.

Shareholders of the Advisory Board Company signed off on the $1.3 billion sale of its healthcare division to UnitedHealth Group’s Optum health services segment.