Top Stories

HealthLeaders Media editors research more than 100 reputable news outlets daily and share the latest healthcare headlines with our readers. You may submit inquiries or suggestions to our online editor.

Main | Leadership | Finance | Technology | Physicians | Community Hospitals | Health Plans | Marketing | Quality | Nursing | Human Resources May | April | March | February | January | December | November | October | September | August | July | June February 28, 2013
For Medicare providers, looming cuts less painful than budget deal
The repeal Obamacare chorus quiets
Obamacare ramping up a healthcare turf war
Lifespan, United team up to coordinate healthcare
AHRQ: ED costs hard to predict with $4 to $24,000 swings
CPOE cuts medication errors by 48%, says study
Why do we want prices in healthcare?
February 27, 2013
Intubation in ICU Linked to PTSD
NJ Governor backs Medicaid expansion
Can the Cleveland Clinic save American healthcare?
Coordinated healthcare could save CA $110B
Highmark: We need contract with UPMC
Tenet Healthcare misses on fourth-quarter earnings
Opinion: The unfulfilled promises of HIT
February 26, 2013
Don't Blame Hospitals for All Diagnostic Errors
3 Hill panels examining changes to Medicare
The rest of the story on MA cost control
C. Everett Koop, forceful US Surgeon General, dies at 96
Aetna consolidates health IT assets
February 25, 2013
Business Roundup: Summa Health Finds a Partner
Healthcare Imaging Strategies Not Exactly a Snap
Healthcare braces for sequester
Simpson-Bowles healthcare plan offers $600B in cuts, few specifics
In FL, a healthcare quandary
Health insurance premium increases drop since 2009
Opinion: Overcoming obstacles to better healthcare
February 22, 2013
6 States to Receive $250M in Innovation Model Funding
Early Elective Delivery Still a Costly Health Risk
Obamacare is winning
Q&A: Marilyn Tavenner, Obama's pick to head Medicare
Govs to hear OR healthcare plan
HHS: Most states on track with health law's technical demands
MA receives $44M to further healthcare overhaul
Docs delivering babies early much less often
February 21, 2013
Unlikely prescription from doctors: Less is more
Weight Loss Surgery Doesn't Cut Health Costs
Governor: FL will expand Medicaid
FL Medicaid expansion could create 71,300 jobs
US issues final word on essential benefits
Readmissions don't measure quality, Harvard doc says
Nurse practitioners push to help care for health law's newly insured
February 20, 2013
Robotic Surgery Hikes Hysterectomy Costs
Can VBP Put Healthcare on Right Track?
Insurer stocks slip over possible Medicare cuts
5 ways to improve HIEs
Administration revives wage, overtime fight for home-care workers
February 19, 2013
BCBSNC Kicks Off Orthopedic Bundles
States worry about rate shock during shift to new health law
Feds will run most Obamacare exchanges
Geography to play larger role in health premiums
Controversial address vaults Hopkins' neurosurgeon into political arena
Express Scripts 4Q profit jumps 74 percent
NJ hospitals pioneer cost-cutting model
February 15, 2013
Few States Choose to Operate Health Insurance Exchanges
Q&A with WellPoint's Next CEO, Joe Swedish
GOP senators reintroduce bill to repeal IPAB
States face Friday deadline on healthcare exchanges
US official touts health insurance markets, lawmakers leery
MedPAC chief warns of Medicare payment crisis
Healthcare workers need to explain insurance overhaul, Sebelius says
EMRs probed for over-billing
February 14, 2013
Hospital Consolidation Gets a New Playbook
After 7 years, will Medicare finally have a leader?
House Republican aims to repeal Medicare doc pay cuts
CA health chief looks within for solution to rising health costs
CA reveals details of health law insurance plans
February 13, 2013
Weak Link Found Between Readmissions, Mortality
In SOTU address, Obama offers no new overtures on healthcare
WellPoint names Swedish from Trinity Health as new CEO
Dispute develops over discount drug program
MD's St. Joseph Medical Center not CMS-certified
Graph: The slowdown in US healthcare spending
February 12, 2013
DOJ, HHS Announce $4.2B in Medicare Fraud Recoveries
Dartmouth Readmissions Report Shows Scant Progress
Observation units may ease burdens of ER care, but at a price
Rule on 'essential benefits' sent to White House for final review
Charity care strains rural hospitals
Split ruling goes against Duke in tainted instruments case
US recovers $4.2B from healthcare fraud probes
February 11, 2013
Readmission Prevention Effort Focuses on Colon Surgery Patients
No one fix to slow hospital readmission epidemic
Lower premiums at stake in NC Blue Cross lawsuit
CA lacks docs to meet demand of national healthcare law
Comparison shopping coming to Highmark
Deadbeat docs owe government millions
February 8, 2013
Medicaid expansion divides GOP governors
Catholic Health to pay $4.9M in St. Joseph overbilling case
Obama renominates Tavenner to lead CMS
UT hospitals swallow "sick tax"
HHS: Medicare prescription drug savings hit $5.7B
MD's healthcare experiment: An insurance co-op
February 7, 2013
NQF, JC Name National Patient Safety Award Winners
Bipartisan 'doc fix' bill introduced
How OH's Republican governor sold the state on expanding Medicaid
Health insurance companies get in shape for 2014
Prime hospital chain acknowledges it faces 2 federal probes
Methodist files anti-trust lawsuit against OSF Healthcare
State, fed officials find solution for preserving MinnesotaCare
February 6, 2013
Hospitalizations Up For the Terminally Ill
Obama's health-insurance expansion eroding, CBO projects
Insurers press docs to file more claims electronically
U. of Colorado Health ponders creating its own HMO
Opinion: Dig into details before scoffing at Mayo Clinic's $6B plan
Judge raises more questions about WakeMed Medicare settlement
HIE debate gets fiery
February 5, 2013
Adverse Drug Reactions ID'd by Phone
US proposes scrapping some obsolete Medicare regulations
Docs concerned about gift disclosure rules
Healthcare spending in America, in 2 graphs
Opinion: Medicare's observation status unfair to patients
February 4, 2013
CMS Unveils 4 Bundled Payment Models
ME politicians strive to stay in hospitals' good graces
Health insurers highlight excessive out-of-network charges
FL hospitals hit by cliff deal, health reform
WakeMed's Medicare settlement with feds would allow confidential reports
NY St. Luke's Hospital quietly shut down pediatric unit
February 1, 2013
Tick, tock: Administration misses some health law deadlines
EHR accuracy remains problem, CHIME says
NC Senate committee moves to block participation in federal healthcare reform
CO lawmakers embrace healthcare change
As PPACA Deadlines Near, States Dawdle
Small surgeries, huge markups