Bruce Japsen

NEW ORLEANS--Trying to thwart another round of Medicare cuts to physician fees, the American Medical Association is making a house call on the new Congress. The AMA this week began...

Although Abbott Laboratories has made a huge bet in biotechnology and other advanced medical technologies, the company hasn't given up on treatments derived from Mother Nature. The North Chicago-based medical...

Hoping to revitalize sales in its renal division, Baxter International Inc. plans to sell most of its ailing dialysis services unit to focus on higher-margin medical products and drugs used...

A Skokie-based operator of long-term-care facilities will buy the Warren Barr Pavilion after all. Boulevard Healthcare became the preferred bidder for the high-profile senior housing and long-term-care facility after a...

Hoping to avoid the fate of an increasing number of troubled medical malpractice companies, the state's largest carrier of such insurance will stop accepting new business Jan. 1 to maintain...

For some large employers, capping health-care inflation near 19 percent has become a bit of a victory. Fourteen Chicago-area companies came together to buy health insurance in 2003 through a...

First Health Group Corp. said Monday that its third-quarter profit jumped 28 percent, as the company benefited from a new contract to administer health benefits for a large postal union....

Profit more than doubled last year for the state's largest health insurer, as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois landed more customers and improved operations at its Texas managed-care...

Mercy Hospital and Medical Center slashed its financial losses by more than half in the last year, but the facility's days as an independent hospital appear numbered, the facility's chief...