The business of hospitals makes news in California -- where sides are engaged in a bidding war to buy a famed Santa Monica hospital; Virginia -- where pediatricians eye a new children's hospital; and Oregon, where lawmakers passed a new hospital tax.
(Daily Report) May 15
The New York Times reports that a new report estimated the national median daily cost of a private nursing home room to be $230 a day, some $6,900 per month.
(Daily Report) May 15
The state will become the first to use a legislative vote to legalize physician-assisted suicide after the governor, who has expressed his support for the measure, signs the bill.
(Daily Report) May 15
A selection of health policy stories from California, Georgia, New York, Florida, California and Kansas.
(Daily Report) May 15
Medicaid doctors continue to wait for their pay raise -- five months after they were supposed to get it. In Connecticut, some allege a backlog of applications for the program breaks federal law, and are suing to stop it.
(Daily Report) May 15
Check out what's new on KHN's blog, Capsules.
(Daily Report) May 15
Physicians are experimenting with new business models and practice techniques in response to financial and lifestyle pressures.
(Daily Report) May 15
Physicians are experimenting with new business models and practice techniques in response to financial and lifestyle pressures.
(Story) May 15
These payments, known as disproportionate share hospital payments, go to hospitals that treat a high number of uninsured patients.
(Daily Report) May 14
A selection of editorials and opinions on health care from around the country.
(Daily Report) May 14