A new study validates two novel biomarkers as predictive of acute kidney injury, or acute renal failure, an asymptomatic condition that often is fatal.

Language in the last minute SGR patch, Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014, mandated that ICD-10 be delayed for at least a year but did not specify an exact timeline.

A new report commissioned by the American Medical Association attempts to quantify the direct and indirect economic output of physicians in order to educate policy makers and the public.

Hope Cancer Institute in Kansas City and its owner Raj Sadasivan, M.D., were accused of submitting Medicare claims for chemotherapy drugs that were never provided.

Boston’s prestigious Tufts Medical Center teaching hospital will partner with Lowell General Hospital, a community hospital with two campuses in Lowell, Mass., under a new parent company yet to be named.

A key element of healthcare is leveraging technology and system efficiencies to allow individual providers to see more patients. But as the number of patients goes up, so does a provider’s malpractice risk according to a new study from the RAND Corporation.

The American Hospital Association, four state hospital associations and four hospital/healthcare systems are taking the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to court over its controversial two-midnight rule that restricts inpatient payment to only be appropriate in cases where the admitting physician expects that the patient will stay in the hospital long enough to cover at least two midnights.

Florida legislators are considering a Senate bill that would increase the use of telemedicine and establish requirements for health providers who treat patients remotely.