Patients are increasingly being offered special financing to cover medical treatments that, consumer advocates say, can turn out to be more costly than using conventional credit cards. These financing options include medical credit cards, which have been around for years and work like traditional credit cards but are used solely for medical treatments.
Community Health Systems has received a consensus rating of "Hold" from the ten analysts that are presently covering the company, Marketbeat reports. Five investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and one has assigned a buy rating to the company.
Leaders of North Carolina’s five largest healthcare systems come together for a discussion on how they're dealing with the industry's biggest challenges, from low staffing to high costs, and what Medicaid expansion means for the state.
Staff and visitors at Baptist Memorial Hospital in East Memphis were on edge for the second time in one week following an overnight lockdown due to a potential threat.
Patient safety in Delaware hospitals is worse than almost 55% of hospitals nationwide, according to a new safety grade report released by The Leapfrog Group, a non-profit that scores hospitals twice a year based on public data and surveys.
This new law provides increased visibility into New York healthcare transactions that fall below the federal Hart-Scott-Rodino threshold for mandatory pre-transaction reporting.