Larry Gage, president of the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems, failed to see the silver lining in the Census report, which highlights the beleaguered Medicaid program as the chief source of relief for uninsured patients.
One fact stood out as Modern Healthcare spoke with purchasing organizations in follow-up conversations to our annual Group Purchasing Survey: The increased cost of raw materials used in the production and transportation of medical products...
The CMS should reconsider the quality-reporting requirements, among other payment methodologies, in its proposed outpatient prospective payment system rule for 2009, the American Hospital Association wrote in a comment letter to acting CMS...
Larry Gage, president of the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems, failed to see the silver lining in the Census report, which highlights the beleaguered Medicaid program as the chief source of relief for uninsured patients.
During their week in Denver, which culminated in the official nomination of Barack Obama for president, the Democratic Party reasserted itself as the go-to party for health reform even though the rhetoric so far hasn’t been matched by specific...
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the newly minted Republican vice presidential candidate, brings a bent toward market-driven healthcare that’s in line with the ideas promoted by her party and the man who will be top the ticket, Sen. John McCain. They are...
One bankrupt hospital completed its shutdown last week with hopes that a buyer may still emerge while another hospital filed for bankruptcy with a physician group poised to buy it.
A new report knocks the CMS for sharply underestimating the number of flawed and fraudulent Medicare claims for durable medical equipment, or DME. As a result, representatives of the DME industry and anti-fraud advocates are both troubled by the...
The Greater New York Hospital Association is backing a $1 billion commercial real estate venture to create a year-round showroom and conference center for companies that sell medical supplies, devices, technology and services.
Two new diagnostic tests could further hospitals’ reach into the world of genetic testing, but it’s unclear whether the novel technologies for detecting a breast-cancer gene will be better options financially than existing tests or improve clinical...
The pressure for hospitals to show quality improvement ramped up in recent weeks as more states released statistics from their adverse-events reporting systems and California announced another round of publicly disclosed fines related to...
Donna Meyer, an executive at Christus Health, regularly debates the merits of questionable expenses that hospitals say represent “giving back to the community.”
One fact stood out as Modern Healthcare spoke with purchasing organizations in follow-up conversations to our annual Group Purchasing Survey: The increased cost of raw materials used in the production and transportation of medical products...
The big story this past week was the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual report on the number of people in the U.S. without health insurance. The news, overall, was good. Some 1.3 million additional people had health coverage in 2007 compared with 2006.
Change is on the minds of many Americans this election cycle—including change in the healthcare system. Americans are so dissatisfied with the healthcare system, they would back major reforms.
As a representative of one of the consumer groups testifying at a Senate Finance Committee hearing in October 2007, I felt compelled to respond to Ralph Lawson’s opinion piece published in the Aug. 11 edition of Modern Healthcare (“A Charity...
LifePoint Hospitals, Brentwood, Tenn., said that William Gracey plans to retire from the company on April 30, 2009. Gracey, 55, will relinquish his post as COO but remain executive vice president until his departure date. David Dill,...
Is this what we have come to? A suburban Chicago man is in jail facing allegations that he stole the identity of a mentally disabled acquaintance in order to fool the state’s Medicaid program into paying Northwestern Memorial Hospital for his bypass...
