Inpatient psychiatric facility payments will increase by 2.2 percent, or $100 million, under the Medicare payment and policy changes for fiscal year 2017.

Physicians and healthcare providers experience frustrations associated with implementing EHRs, but does installing this technology affect patients care? Almost surprisingly, it does not.

Teva, the world’s largest generic drug maker, will be allowed to acquire Allergan’s generic drug business, with the condition it sell the rights and assets to 79 other products.

Readmission rates among patients can rise when patient aren’t well informed about their care. In an effort to minimize readmissions, Patient Portal Technologies partnered with Rite Aid pharmacy to drop readmission rates by 15 percent. 

In Anthem’s response to the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust lawsuit seeking to block its proposed acquisition of Cigna, the health insurer argues the deal would help stabilize health insurance exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act and repeated promises that savings from the merger would be passed on to consumers.

Tampa General Hospital has lost the latest battle in a court fight against HHS on the data used to determine Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments for serving low-income patients.

Global medical technology company Boston Scientific acquired Cosman Medical, a Burlington, Massachusetts, radiofrequency ablation system manufacturer.

We live in a society that relies on technology more with each passing day—and our healthcare system is no different. Charts are in the cloud and doctors are just a click away, but is all this technology, meant to improve care, actually taking us away from what true healthcare is about?