hospital costs

A Delray Beach-based filmmaker talks about the impact of hospital mergers on the cost of the care the new system provides, as spotlighted in her documentary, InHospitable.

The federal penalty program finishes its first decade by lowering payments to nearly half the nation’s hospitals for readmitting too many Medicare patients within a month. Penalties are credited with helping reduce the number of patients returning for another Medicare stay within 30 days.

A bicyclist competed in a race that could have landed him in the Olympics. Instead, he suffered the worst injuries in the 10 years he had raced on pro road teams. And then the bills came.

While false alarms are to be expected, such frequent charges for little if any treatment suggest some hospitals see the alerts as much as a money spigot as a clinical emergency tool, claims consultants say.

A Trump administration rule mandating that hospitals disclose true prices on their websites took effect this year. But compliance is spotty and even when figures are public, they are hard to find and understand.

Nowhere has HCA added trauma centers more aggressively or the fight over trauma center growth been more acrimonious than in Florida. It may offer a preview of what’s to come in Virginia and elsewhere.

The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration will audit 31 hospitals to determine whether their contracts with Medicaid managed-care plans comply…

Patients heading to hospital emergency departments covered by their health insurance company are increasingly getting a rude and costly awakening, the…

South Florida's Miami Children's Hospital has revised its pricing documents given to patients to better reflect the costs of medical care, according to…

A nurses' union says some hospitals are charging exorbitant rates, in certain cases more than 10 times more than what they need to cover costs, according…