HOSPITAL REPORT

Hospitals are finding they are most effective helping the needy in their communities when they get out from behind their walls.

Reaction continues to roll in from across the healthcare community on the Supreme Court’s King v. Burwell decision.

Because this problem is so widespread, trafficking victims are going into hospitals everywhere.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is proposing to allow hospital stays that are less than two midnights to be reimbursed as inpatient stays on a case-by-case basis.

Hospitals spend an average of 12.3% of their total expenses on community benefits.

Reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act from the healthcare industry has been swift and vocal.

Problems with alarms are prevalent, and the National Patient Safety Goal goes into effect Jan. 1. What's a hospital to do?

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.