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.

People with chronic diseases are often consumed with the management of their conditions, but technological advancements have allowed for people to minimize the impact of self-monitoring and decrease the constant worry associated with their health.

The nation’s highest court has agreed to take up three cases where employees of religious-affiliated hospital systems say funding and reporting requirements for pensions should be enforced.

INDIANAPOLIS (December 5, 2016) – Zotec Partners (Zotec), an industry leader in physician billing and practice management services for health systems and hospital-based physician groups, announces an exclusive revenue cycle management (RCM) agreement with Arizona-based Banner Urgent Care (BUC). BUC is comprised of 32 urgent care facilities within Banner Health, one of the largest, nonprofit health care systems in the country managing 29 acute-care hospitals, the Banner Health Network and Banner Medical Group, and also including skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers, outpatient surgery centers and an array of other services.

U.S. Rep. Tom Price, MD, R-Georgia, is now poised to get the job the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports he’s always wanted: Secretary of HHS. With it, he’ll bring what former colleagues call a fierce work ethic and an “inflexible” nature on major issues like repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA).