For years, one of the most consequential storylines in health system operations was the cyberattack that took multiple hospitals offline. Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health in 2022, then Change ...

Twenty-five years and 2,000 hospital mergers later, concentrated economic and political power in the American healthcare system rests not in the hands of doctors, but those of hospital executives ...

With cost-of-living concerns in sharp focus as the November midterm elections near, both the executive branch and Congress are homing in on hospital rates as a driver of higher healthcare costs. In ...

Pretax profits dropped steeply at Orange County’s largest hospitals during the past year. The 28 largest hospitals’ pretax profits for the 12-month period that ended Sept. 30 slid 21% to $418.7 ...

Congress has handed hospital giants a new line of taxpayer-funded credit. This summer, Congress included a $50 billion “rural health fund” in the multitrillion-dollar One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The ...

House Bill 1004 originally proposed threatening to strip hospitals' nonprofit status if they don't bring prices below a certain benchmark. Now the bill calls for another hospital price study and ...

Investment assets at the nation’s largest nonprofit hospitals and medical centers rose an average of 14.1 percent last year, reversing a three-year downturn, according to a report from the Commonfund ...

Hospitals and health insurers are at loggerheads. After the General Insurance Council (GIC), the umbrella body of all insurers, criticised hospitals for suspending cashless services to certain ...