Adapting the WHO's Surgical Safety Checklist led to better outcomes in South Carolina hospitals.

The overall quality star ratings are meant to help make informed healthcare decisions -- but are they accurate?

A new study shows that consumers don't always believe "you get what you pay for" in healthcare.

The 2016 Medicare reimbursement penalty data has many hospitals grumbling.

Four years after the program started, data show that Medicare accountable care organizations still are not living up to the cost-saving promise.

A new study shows that deaths, hospital stays, and costs have decreased for Medicare beneficiaries over the last 15 years.

Big changes are on the way for Medicaid managed care and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), as CMS announced in a Notice of Proposed Rule Making.

Just over a year after Medicare’s huge physician payment data dump, the agency has released another trove of information, this time a breakdown on the prescribing and costs of drugs to Medicare Part D beneficiaries. 

Let’s not minimize how historic the announcement actually was. 

A recent study shows that all the bells and whistles in the world may not increase overall hospital patient satisfaction scores.