Next month, applications are set to open for the new $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program, according to comments from CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz. However, just weeks away from the ...

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 03: U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) shakes hands with Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-TX) alongside fellow House Republicans during an enrollment ceremony for H.R. 1, the ...

Becker’s is pleased to release the 2025 edition of its “Great community hospitals” list. Community hospitals play a vital role in the fabric of the U.S. healthcare system, delivering accessible, ...

BOWMAN, N.D. — Retta Jacobi stepped onto a metal platform that lifted her to an entrance on the side of a custom-designed semitrailer. Once inside, she lay down on a platform that technicians slid ...

More rural hospitals have closed or are planning to close their labor and delivery units in 2025 than in 2024, bringing the total number of closures since the end of 2020 to 116, according to the ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. As the share of U.S. adults receiving mental health care ...

For-profit hospitals provide most inpatient physical therapy but tend to have worse readmission rates to general hospitals. Medicare doesn’t tell consumers about troubling inspections. By Jordan Rau ...

Republicans created a special $50 billion fund to help rural hospitals stay afloat, but the biggest impacts may be in cities. By Emily Badger Alicia Parlapiano and Margot Sanger-Katz In a typical year ...

Hospitals are bracing for the impact from the Medicaid cuts in President Trump’s sweeping spending and tax cut law. While most of the cuts won’t happen immediately, rural facilities in particular say ...

Safety-net hospitals provided $11 billion in uncompensated care and another $11.4 billion in under-reimbursed care in 2023, according to a Nov. 6 report from America’s Essential Hospitals. Four things ...

Congress has implemented a number of policies over the past four decades to boost access to care for rural Americans, who tend to be older and sicker compared with their urban counterparts. The ...

Hundreds of urban hospitals have taken advantage of a 2016 policy change that allows them to be simultaneously classified by Medicare as rural and urban facilities for payment purposes, according to a ...