Kentucky's House Bill 2 could introduce new work requirements and copays for thousands of Medicaid recipients. Here's what to ...

Complaints and restructuring at General raise concerns that overcrowded ERs and limited beds put unhoused patients at risk.

CMS’ decision to phase out the inpatient-only list over three years is expected to accelerate the migration of procedures to outpatient settings, particularly ASCs. The policy would eliminate a ...

If you get sick or injured and need hospital care, which can cost thousands of dollars, would you be able to afford it? Research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggests it may be a ...

President Donald Trump's "big beautiful bill" introduced Medicaid work requirements for certain individuals up to age 64, and raised the work requirement ages for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...

A House subcommittee has unanimously advanced a bill that would direct the state to increase its number of inpatient psychiatric beds at the state’s two mental health facilities from 92 to 184 at ...

CMS’ decision to phase out the Medicare Inpatient Only list in 2026 marks a consequential site-of-service policy that could rapidly accelerate the migration of complex procedures to outpatient ...

Medicaid’s Institution for Mental Diseases (IMD) rule bars federal funding for psychiatric facilities with more than 16 beds, but findings indicate that state waivers allowing treatment of serious ...

EMTALA imposes additional, heightened burdens on hospitals when patients present with behavioral health EMCs. Physicians and other qualified medical personnel who practice in a hospital’s ED also must ...

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The American Hospital Association (AHA) expressed its disappointment over the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) changes to hospital price transparency regulations. On November 21, CMS ...

Companies running private Medicare and Medicaid insurance plans inaccurately list many mental health professionals as being available to treat the plans' members, a new federal watchdog report says.