Republicans on congressional committees which oversee the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are encouraging President-elect Donald Trump to retain the agency’s current director, Francis Collins, MD, PhD.

The antitrust trial on Aetna’s proposed $37 billion acquisition of Humana began Dec. 5, with the U.S. Department of Justice beginning to make its case that the merger would reduce competition and raise prices for patients and hospitals.

The Leapfrog Group has named the recipients of its 2016 Top Hospital awards for children’s, rural, teaching and general hospitals.  

The Microsoft Xbox Kinect isn't just for video games. TrainerMD, producers of HIPAA-compliant software for patients and clinicians, has paired with Styku, a software and Microsoft Accelerator company, to utilize the machine as a 3D body scanner.

Toby Cosgrove, MD, the longtime CEO and president of Cleveland Clinic, will sit on a 16-member panel of business leaders offering expertise on job and economic growth to President-elect Donald Trump.

Adding one Medicaid patient day in 2017 would increase a hospital’s Medicare payments by more than $300, which, when added to Medicaid dollars, makes treating Medicaid beneficiaries profitable for hospitals.

Disproportionate-share hospitals (DSHs) couldn’t cover their total costs for treating Medicaid and uninsured patients in 2011 through Medicaid payments, after accounting for taxes and fees paid to local governments.

Some insurers which have criticized the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges have made money off those plans, according to a new report from USA Today.