Trauma center accreditation status has been granted to two additional hospitals in Pennsylvania starting September 1, 2017.

Researchers found no evidence that efforts to drop hospital readmissions rates have increased the risk of recently discharged patients dying—in fact, those efforts seem to have reduced post-hospitalization mortality.

The annual hospital rankings from U.S. News and World Report will now be released a week later than scheduled after errors were discovered in data which affected 12 “data-driven specialty rankings.”

The U.S. Department of Justice charged 412 people, including 56 doctors, for allegedly participated in false billing schemes netting $1.3 billion, with many cases involving prescriptions of opioids or other narcotics.

Pharmaceutical companies appear to be embracing contracts where they return money if patient outcomes don’t meet goals, but similar approaches haven’t lowered costs.

The proportion of Medicare age patients who choose to be discharged from the hospital through an AMA—against medical advice—form is rising.

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, has been treated at MedStar Washington Hospital Center since he was shot in June. The hospital has a less-than-stellar safety reputation, according to USA Today.

CMS has proposed requiring private accrediting organizations (AOs), like the Joint Commission, to publicly release what have been confidential survey reports of hospitals. Dozens of AOs and the facilities they inspect asked the agency to take that change out of the final Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) rule for 2018, arguing the reports shouldn’t be treated like healthcare quality data.