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According to a report in Medscape, malpractice premiums for physicians declined in 2013.

A rally was held yesterday in front of West Bay Surgery Center in Largo, Fla., in support of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to a report from The Tampa Tribune.

According to a Kaiser Family Foundation report, National Medicaid enrollment and spending growth are expected to rise in fiscal year 2014, driven by improving economic conditions and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

This past August, healthcare prices were only 1 percent higher compared with August 2012, equal to the May 2013 rate, which was the lowest year-over-year growth recorded since January 1990, according to a report from the Altarum Institute's Center for…

Here are eight new accountable care organizations.

Here are statistics on urologist compensation based on practice location, according to the Medscape Urologist Compensation Report: 2013.

Healthcare safety and reliability improvements are dependent on addressing overuse of health services, implementation of process improvement tools and roadblocks to truly safe institutional culture, according to Joint Commission president and CEO Mark R. Chassin, MD, in a Health Affairs…

Zimmer Spine has signed a global distribution agreement for the Lateral Locking Cage with Frontier Medical Devices and will exclusively market the cage to customers worldwide.

Integra LifeSciences announced the U.S. FDA 510(k) approval and introduction of its Integra Laminoplasty System for cervical and thoracic spine.

Academic interest in quality improvement is on the rise, according to a database analysis study in the American Journal of Medical Quality.