After a brief post-pandemic lull, hospital consolidation is accelerating again, with large health systems expanding across state lines, absorbing independent hospitals and reshaping regional care ...

Bob Herman covers health insurance, government programs, hospitals, physicians, and other providers — reporting on how money influences those businesses and shapes what we all pay for care. He is also ...

Every hospital bought by West Virginia University Health System is photographed, framed and hung on a Mountaineer Blue wall at the nonprofit’s headquarters. The effect is a visual timeline of the ...

Columbine Health Systems sold five of its Northern Colorado facilities for a total of $62.3 million, property records show. The properties were purchased by an Illinois-based company possibly ...

Dr. Cooper is an associate professor of public health and economics at Yale. The debate over whether to extend the expanded Affordable Care Act subsidies has consumed lawmakers over the past two ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The Board of Directors of the Albany Med Health System has chosen a new president and CEO. Daniel Pickett, III was unanimously chosen to replace Dr. Dennis McKenna. Dr. McKenna ...

WVU Health System will acquire the facilities, employees — and debt load — from Independence Health when the two entities are officially joined in the second half of next year, according to hospital ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The West Virginia University Health System and Pennsylvania-based Independence Health System have announced plans to merge, bringing five hospitals into the system—Butler Memorial, ...

Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports ...

A vehicle moves along a driveway behind a sign on the campus of Butler Memorial Hospital, Friday, Dec. 4, 2020, in Butler, Pa. The West Virginia University Health System is expanding its reach into ...

Independence Health System, a five-hospital nonprofit in western Pennsylvania, is planning to join the West Virginia University Health System in the fall of 2026, the organizations announced Wednesday ...

A hospital system in Western Pennsylvania is set to become part of the West Virginia University Health System. The West Virginia University Health System and Independence Health System announced plans ...