Medicare patients who are trying to pick a provider will soon have a more straight-forward, visual way to compare nearly 4,000 hospitals. CMS will assign each hospital an overall rating of between one to five stars, the distribution of which it announced in a statement July 21. 

Here’s a roundup of state healthcare news, including complaints over slow payments in Iowa’s privately managed Medicaid program and California overhauling its cancer database.

The American Medical Association and the American College of Radiology are among the groups pushing members of Congress to roll back laws requiring groups to disclose financial ties to doctors in the federal government’s OpenPayments database.

The healthcare industry is never far from the headlines—and, at least recently, it has not for the best reasons. Hackers are stealing patient data, costs are increasing and the political landscape is always shifting.

The results of a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine contains some bad news for asthmatics living in certain areas. 

A report on privacy and security concerns surrounding new technology that collects health data, such as wearable fitness trackers, admitted regulations like HIPAA haven’t kept pace with new developments.

A report released earlier this month by CMS predicted healthcare spending will top $10,000 per American in 2016—a lot of money for individual patients and the insurance programs, both public and private, that subsidize them.

In recent news, healthcare hackers such as “TheDarkOverlord” have been stealing private patient records and parading their spoils around the internet. He claims to be selling these private documents on the black market is ransom is not paid by the healthcare providers he initially stole the information from. This activity has caught the interest of the FBI, reports Information Management.