When his hospital clients began to ask for more assistance with some of their ongoing problems, Steve O’Hara responded with innovative products—proving that one of the oldest services traditionally outsourced in the healthcare industry can also be...
Hospital payments to physicians for providing emergency department on-call coverage, responding to emergency calls, or providing inpatient care for uninsured persons could potentially violate anti-kickback statutes, according to an HHS inspector...
President Bush will veto the House-Senate compromise bill to fund the 10-year-old State Children’s Health Insurance Program as promised, said HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt. It is possible, however, that Congress and the White House could work out a...
General Motors Corp.’s tentative deal last week with the United Auto Workers to create a healthcare trust is being praised by healthcare providers as an avenue to better involve individuals in their healthcare decisions, improve outcomes and lower...
Medicare’s controversial managed-care plans, known as Medicare Advantage, appear to be lagging behind other healthcare plans on quality measures, the National Committee for Quality Assurance reported last week.
T he hospital lobby won a hard fought yet ultimately partial victory last week, helping to sway Congress to approve a bill that will add back billions of dollars in Medicare reimbursements that otherwise would have been eliminated.
T he hospital lobby won a hard fought yet ultimately partial victory last week, helping to sway Congress to approve a bill that will add back billions of dollars in Medicare reimbursements that otherwise would have been eliminated.
A move by the CMS to lift a marketing ban on a controversial type of Medicare Advantage plan drew criticism by federal lawmakers and advocacy groups even as the nation’s largest insurance lobby lauded the step.
The Vatican’s recent declaration that vegetative patients have a moral right to feeding tubes exposed a rift among Catholic bishops and church-affiliated providers on the question of when such life support can be stopped for those who are never...
Amid a burgeoning medical tourism market that is drawing U.S. patients overseas to seek care, at least one U.S. hospital is pushing to draw foreign patients here. Seattle’s Swedish Medical Center has launched an international healthcare program that...
Nominations are now closed for Modern Healthcare’s 2008 Trustee of the Year competition. The awards, co-sponsored by executive search firm Witt/Kieffer, honor two outstanding trustees for their contributions to healthcare governance, one...
When his hospital clients began to ask for more assistance with some of their ongoing problems, Steve O’Hara responded with innovative products—proving that one of the oldest services traditionally outsourced in the healthcare industry can also be...
The fact that Congress—and perhaps the president—are closer than ever to a mental-health parity statute doesn’t mean care shouldn’t be taken with the final legislation. A bill working its way through the House is far preferable to a Senate bill,...
So not only are patients being harmed or killed, but they get to pay extra for the privilege (“CMS: Your mistake, your problem,” Aug. 20, p. 10). This seems to violate every notion of customer service, let alone the Hippocratic oath.
The boot camp concept today seems to be gaining popularity. Many companies are patterning their sales training meetings along a boot camp mode similar to what the military conducts with its recruits whether it be the Air Force, Army, Navy or...
