When Tufts Medical Center shutters its pediatric hospital this summer, the move will make Boston Children's Hospital, already the dominant and most expensive pediatric hospital in the region, even more powerful and could force insurers and families with sick children to pay more for healthcare.
Washington state, in its second year of offering the nation's first public option health insurance plan, has learned an important lesson: If you want hospitals to participate, you're probably going to have to force them.
A San Antonio jury ordered Peripheral Vascular Associates to pay $8.1 million in damages for fraudulent Medicare claims after several whistleblowers brought evidence to court.
WARM SPRINGS - The Montana State Hospital in Warm Springs has been placed on "Immediate Jeopardy" status by CMS for alleged violations of patient rights and infection prevention control.
Earlier this month, Yale New Haven Health officials announced plans to buy two other health systems, including three hospitals in central Connecticut, pending state approval. Consumer advocates and public health analysts say residents and insurance payers have a reason to be concerned about the deal.
Marshall Health and Mountain Health Network have joined Peak Health, a Morgantown-based health insurer that was formed in 2021 by West Virginia University Medicine, which does business as WVU Medicine.