Carolina Hinestrosa was 35 when she beat breast cancer. She was 40 when she beat it a second time. Her younger sister also battled breast cancer twice, and over the past few years, two of her cousins and an aunt were diagnosed with the disease.
The Senate approved a $122 billion emergency spending bill that includes a tucked-away provision placing a two-year moratorium on a proposed Medicaid rule. In January, the CMS proposed a rule that more narrowly defines the criteria for a public...
Carolina Hinestrosa was 35 when she beat breast cancer. She was 40 when she beat it a second time. Her younger sister also battled breast cancer twice, and over the past few years, two of her cousins and an aunt were diagnosed with the disease.
The American Hospital Association and other healthcare groups last week cheered a Supreme Court decision that will make it tougher for individuals to bring a false-claims lawsuit, while advocates of so-called “whistle-blowers” called the decision a...
Physicians are making it clear to the federal government that the want and need for health information technology is abundant, but the money to pay for it is not.
The two biggest insurers in Pennsylvania got a lot bigger last week as the wave of consolidation among major health insurers swept across the Keystone State.
HealthSouth Corp.’s recent deal to sell its surgery center division makes it two down and one to go as the company continues to quickly shed segments that aren’t part of its new focus on inpatient rehabilitation.
A push by hospitals to build detached emergency rooms miles away from their doorsteps—even in an adjacent city—has sparked a Florida legislative debate over how to regulate their construction and oversight.
Those who are banking on the outcome of the 2008 presidential election to achieve universal health coverage may have been given pause in recent days by the quality of the debate thus far. It seems that the fallout from HillaryCare continues, as...
For all our independence in this country, sometimes we just need the government to step in and take the lead for the greater public good. In the ’50s we needed the government to make racial discrimination illegal. In the early ’90s we needed federal...
In regard to Todd Sloane’s editorial on patient privacy, there are two kinds of privacy concerns—liability to patients from unauthorized access and liability to patients from authorized access (“D.C. not confidential,” March 5, p.
It is a source of great solace to me that there are many quality people in this world who give their all every day and care and sacrifice for others. Their attitude stands out in a time when incivility has become almost the norm, when just walking...
John Hill was appointed president and CEO of HCA-HealthOne’s Medical Center of Aurora and Centennial Medical Plaza facilities in Colorado. He will start at the end of April. Hill, 36, succeeds Sylvia Young, 45, who was promoted to HCA...
Taking on the establishment can be a humbling experience. A 2-year-old ambulatory surgery center outside St. Louis learned that lesson last week, when its initial effort to become Missouri’s first-ever specialty hospital was thwarted in large part...
New cardiac hospitals often trigger sharp increases in the utilization of invasive and costly heart procedures to open up clogged arteries, including bypass surgeries and angioplasties, according to a study in the March 7 issue of the Journal of...
Patrick Hickey, a wiry veteran nurse with a seemingly insatiable wanderlust, was scheduled to depart Chicago last week for Katmandu, Nepal, the first leg of his bid to scale the last of seven summits: Mt. Everest.
