Physician offices are poised to achieve double-digit net profit margins in 2013, according to a preliminary analysis of privately held companies. Physician offices ranked among the most profitable and general medical and surgical hospitals among the least profitable healthcare-related industries.

This week, Leapfrog Group published the names of top hospitals based on its assessment of quality metrics. For what purpose?

The Senate Finance Committee will meet Dec. 12 to review legislation to repeal Medicare's sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula.

Cardiovascular technologists and technicians and MR imaging technicians ranked among the top 50 fastest growing occupations in the U.S. in a projection through 2017.

Although revascularizations in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) are meant to prevent amputations, a study published online Nov. 20 in JAMA Surgery found that areas in the country where revascularizations in the year before amputation were more frequent did not have lower rates of amputation. 

In a reversal from its 2009 opinion, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is proposing to expand its coverage for cardiac rehabilitation services for patients with chronic heart failure.

Selectively ablating patients with atrial fibrillation reduces costs, according to a substudy of the DECAAF trial presented Nov. 18 at the American Heart Association scientific session in Dallas.

Americans are more likely to avoid seeking healthcare because of cost, access and insurance issues than residents of 10 other countries, according to a study published online Nov. 13 in Health Affairs.