Following the government’s lead, another state Medicaid program has decided to stop paying hospitals for hospital-acquired conditions, according to the Greenville (SC) News.

Hospitals should move toward single-patient rooms in all newly built hospitals, according to a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

A new report finds that cost increases incurred by hospitals fell in 2006 because insurers asked for discounts and directed more patients to outpatient care, according to Bloomberg News.