RoundTable Healthcare Partners, a healthcare private equity firm based in Lake Forest, Ill., has finalized a deal to acquire Symmetry Surgical, a marketer of surgical instruments and specialty devices based in Nashville.

Some of the smallest insurance companies will be the biggest payers into the risk adjustment program established under the Affordable Care Act for this year.

We live in the age of technology where even babies use tablets. But it seems odd that, while anyone can use technology, doctors can be confounded by the internet. athenahealth hopes to change that by modeling its own “information problem” solution after top technology companies like Amazon.

After what seemed like an uphill battle to acquire neighboring a hospital, Cabell Huntington Hospital in Huntington, W.V., may be gaining some traction after its plan was approved by the Health Care Authority.

Louisville, Ky.-based Kindred Healthcare announced today its acquisition of a transitional care hospital in San Antonio, Texas, a move that supports its mission to add more long-term acute care facilities to its network.

Paper strips have come a long way from just determining how much chlorine is in your pool, they can now detect cancer and malaria from just one drop of blood.

After a report showing that doctors who accept gifts, food and money from pharmaceutical companies tend to prescribe those companies’ drugs more, ProPublica released another report with evidence those doctors tend to be located in the same areas. 

CMS is proposing a 1 percent reduction in reimbursements for home healthcare agencies for 2017, amounting to an overall cut in payment of $180 million.