Physicians may make better hospital leaders than managers, according to researchers writing in the Harvard Business Review, and more training programs could create more physicians capable of leading health systems.

As the next Congress and president debate how to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the American Medical Association finds itself in a weakened position to offer the physician's perspective to healthcare reform.

Toby Cosgrove, MD, CEO of the Cleveland Clinic, is reportedly a contender to run the Department of Veterans Affairs in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.

400,000 more people bought health plans through the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplace in 2016 than 2015, according to the final open enrollment figures released by HHS for coverage beginning Jan. 1, 2017.

Additional opportunities for Advanced Alternative Payment Models (APMs) are now available, as CMS has finalized a number of policies on bundled payments and a new accountable care organization model.

In its comments to CMS on the final Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) rule, the American Medical Group Association asked the agency to limit the transition to new payment tracks to only one year and develop a new two-sided risk model in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP).

Stroger Hospital and the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, both in Chicago, have been racking up malpractice suits, which are costing them, according to a recent story from Crain’s Chicago Business.

Groups with data-use agreements with HHS and CMS are scrambling to copy healthcare data and documents in case President-elect Donald Trump’s administration erases it once in office—a fear Trump-aligned groups call “paranoid.”