A federal appeals court sided with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against the proposed merger of two Illinois hospital chains, Advocate Health Care and NorthShore University Health System, reversing a lower court’s decision that denied the FTC a preliminary injunction.

New measures did little to change the grade distribution in the Leapfrog Group’s fall 2016 Hospital Safety Scores report.

Spending more means getting a better quality, right? According to a study analyzing the cost of cancer care and its outcomes shows that expensive is not always the most effective. 

Graduate students at the University of Pittsburgh have compiled a list of recommendations to prevent opioid overdoses that is being presented at the American Public Health Association 2016 Annual Meeting & Exposition in Denver.

Programs that help customers on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace buy insurance are being criticized by insurers as they pull out of the exchanges.

The validity of arbitration clauses in nursing home residency agreements will be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, as justices have agreed to hear a case against two Kentucky facilities.

A bipartisan group of Senators is proposing ways to improve health outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions, which account for the majority of Medicare spending.

Hospitals seeking cardiovascular accreditation services will no longer have to go to the American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of Cardiology (ACC) separately beginning in 2017.