HOSPITAL REPORT

When it comes to healthcare for those who are transgender, options are limited. That situation is being addressed. The National Institutes of Health has awarded $5.7 million for the first U.S. study to evaluate the long-term outcomes of medical treatment for transgender youth.

Two leaders in the healthcare field are putting out a call for healthcare providers to address racial bias throughout the U.S. healthcare system.

Yelp has teamed up to do hospital reviews with ProPublica, an independent, non-profit newsroom that provides investigative journalism. Yelp will post information from ProPublica’s interactive health databases on its health provider pages.

A new study shows that deaths, hospital stays, and costs have decreased for Medicare beneficiaries over the last 15 years.

Hospitals are finding they are most effective helping the needy in their communities when they get out from behind their walls.

Reaction continues to roll in from across the healthcare community on the Supreme Court’s King v. Burwell decision.

Because this problem is so widespread, trafficking victims are going into hospitals everywhere.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is proposing to allow hospital stays that are less than two midnights to be reimbursed as inpatient stays on a case-by-case basis.

Hospitals spend an average of 12.3% of their total expenses on community benefits.

Reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act from the healthcare industry has been swift and vocal.