House Speaker Dan Hawkins intensified frustration among Republicans and Democrats by taking new steps to block legislation sought by hospitals and clinics to preserve integrity of a federal program ...

Biomedical engineers at Brown University have developed a hydrogel-based wound dressing that releases antibiotics only in the presence of infection-causing bacteria, offering a potential new method ...

Oakland County is erasing $6 million in medical debt for 6,300 county residents. The county is working with the national nonprofit Undue Medical Debt, which acquires the medical debts of those who are ...

A regulatory snag may endanger the planned April 1 closing of the merger between Maimonides Medical Center and NYC Health+Hospitals. The state Attorney General's office has opted not to issue ...

CMS is swapping out faxing and mailing for streamlined electronic transactions, an action it says lets providers spend less time on administrative hassle and more time caring for patients. The ...

FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson has directed agency staff to create a Healthcare Task Force aimed at coordinating enforcement ...

A new study this week in JAMA, identified sepsis in 1.3% of hospitalized U.S. children ages one month to 17 years old. The study, which included data from nearly four million admissions from 2016 ...

Medicare payment problems are generating steep financial hardships for some of Minnesota’s rural hospitals at a time when many are struggling to stay afloat. State hospital leaders and officials at ...

UCI Health, which just opened a new hospital with 970 new employees in Irvine four months ago, plans to lay off 150 ...

What health system executives are actually doing to make AI work inside their organizations. AI dominated the conversation at HIMSS26, and for hospital and health system leaders, the focus is now ...

The federal health program offers coverage for all Americans 65 and older. People on Affordable Care Act plans nearing ...

UnitedHealthcare became the first major insurer to start adding a doula benefit to plans across the country. By next year, ...