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.

Hospital closures have been a point of trepidation in the healthcare community, as leaders worry whether patients will have access to needed care. But a recent Health Affairs study shows that things may not be as bad a previously thought.

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. 

“Transition coaches” at Wyoming Medical Center in Casper help patients who are ill and about to be discharged and their families. 

After years of kicking the proverbial can down the road, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan, crafted bill.

In Joplin, MO, a new $465 million facility, Mercy Hospital Joplin, opens Sunday – on time and under budget. The focus has been on making the facility as safe as possible.