Hospital media policies have been a bitter source of conflict at hospitals over the past year, as physicians, nurses and other healthcare workers around the country have been fired or disciplined for publicly speaking or posting about what they saw as dangerously inadequate COVID-19 safety precautions.
President Joe Biden will issue an executive order Friday directing HHS to support price transparency rules issued by the Trump administration and telling the FTC to prioritize hospital consolidation in its enforcement efforts.
Research from multiple countries shows the Pfizer shot and other widely used COVID-19 vaccines offer strong protection against the highly contagious delta variant.
Big changes in Medicaid payments to providers and managed care plans aren't likely this year as state budgets recover, Medicaid rolls shrink and the U.S. economy sheds its pandemic woes.
The Leapfrog Group compiled patient experience survey data from hospitals, outpatient surgery departments, ambulatory surgical centers and children's hospitals to show trends across the industry.
Total revenue among hospitals that announced deals in the first half of 2021 was $17.2 billion, which was the second-highest tally since 2015.
McKesson Corp. will sell a majority of its European businesses to the Phoenix Group in order to concentrate its resources in other areas.
The Justice Department alleged Alere continued to market a blood monitoring device to patients, despite defects that led to serious injury.
While much progress has been made since COVID immunizations first became available, there are still too many communities around the country where protection doesn't run as deep as we need it to be.
Leadership and new employees will need to be fully vaccinated by Aug. 24, and all other workers will have until Sept. 21 to get immunized or face termination,
The recent emergence of a virus that typically sickens children in colder months has baffled U.S. pediatricians and put many infants in the hospital with troublesome coughs and breathing trouble.
Interim CEO Don Smithburg said federal pandemic-relief funding provided “only a temporary reprieve from financial challenges that have been persistent for years."
The Food and Drug Administration said the change is intended to address confusion among physicians and patients about who should get the drug, which has faced an intense public backlash since its approval last month.
Michigan says 5,680 long-term care residents and 77 staff have died, accounting for 29% of nearly 19,800 confirmed COVID-19 deaths.
