A Virginia judge has ordered Martinsville Memorial Hospital, owned by LifePoint Health, to cut its balance billing rates by 75 percent in a case involving a patient covered by a non-contracted insurer.

Healthcare executives maintain a positive outlook for 2016, with 71 percent expecting their revenues to increase this year and 55 percent expecting to seek financing in the next 12 months, according to a survey released by financial firm CIT Group.

Healthcare costs were listed as most significant financial burden by 31 percent of GOBankingRate.com survey respondents. 

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking comments on a proposed hospital quality measure for antipsychotic use in older patients in the inpatient setting. 

Inpatient admissions increased slightly at some of the largest for-profit hospitals in 2015.

UnitedHealthcare announced it will exit the Affordable Care Act marketplace in Arizona next year, reducing or even eliminating options for rural communities reports The Arizona Republic.

Repurposed EHR data collected during office visits can identify patient risk factors and prevent unintentional falls in seniors, according to findings published in Perspectives in Health Information Management, the online research journal of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA).

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has caved to pressure from Congress and the healthcare industry, delaying the release of its new hospital quality rating measure a day before its planned launch.