Malnutrition in surgical patients raises mortality rates, readmissions and poor outcomes while also reducing recovery time and quality of life. Researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) in Baltimore have published a study in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery evaluating a new screening tool capable of identifying patients at risk for malnutrition.

A CMS report on patterns in state-level healthcare spending showed the expansion of Medicaid eligibility led to an increase in total spending in expansion states, but a decline in spending per enrollee.

The Republican-sponsored American Health Care Act (AHCA) could “trigger an economic downturn in nearly every state,” according to a new report from George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health and the Commonwealth Fund, with the majority of the job losses coming from the healthcare industry.

Legislation to establish a permanent reinsurance program for the Affordable Care Act marketplace has been introduced by five Democratic senators.

Health systems looking for ways to grow profits should focus on sites of care and know what kind of insurance plans their patients may be utilizing, with much of the growth being seen in outpatient services.

The Board of Trustees of The New York Academy of Medicine is pleased to announce Judith Salerno, MD, MS, as its next President, effective September 5, 2017.

In his first address as president of the American Medical Association, David Barbe, MD, MHA, encouraged physicians at the AMA’s annual meeting in Chicago to “put their expertise to work” in the debate over healthcare legislation and not be “corrupted or co-opted” by partisanship.

President Donald Trump reportedly told Republican senators the House-passed version of the American Health Care Act (AHCA) is “mean” and asked for the Senate version to be “more generous,” according to congressional sources who spoke to the Associated Press.