As the nation prepares to put a new tenant in the White House, healthcare experts are signaling that they favor an overhaul in the way healthcare providers are paid.
As millions of Americans will testify, health insurance doesn’t guarantee affordable medical care. Just how many millions more will learn that lesson before the economy rebounds presents a looming problem for the nation’s hospitals.
J. Alexander McMahon, who led the American Hospital Association through a tumultuous period in which federal payment systems came under attack in the 1970s, died Oct. 30 at his home in North Carolina. He was 87. “He’ll always be well-known,...
As millions of Americans will testify, health insurance doesn’t guarantee affordable medical care. Just how many millions more will learn that lesson before the economy rebounds presents a looming problem for the nation’s hospitals.
The American Hospital Association is on pace to spend a record amount on congressional races this election cycle, saying it is shelling out $1.6 million in individual contributions to House races and another $244,000 for those in the...
As campaign rhetoric morphs into actual policymaking, the Association of American Medical Colleges is hoping the six principles for healthcare reform released two weeks before the election are considered and factored into any legislative...
The presidential election this week likely will have a profound impact on American life, but the coming change in occupancy at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. also could affect two of the most arcane yet important elements in healthcare—electronic data...
As the focus on infection control continues to sharpen at local and federal levels, implementation assistance that the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology can provide to healthcare facilities is a welcome addition to...
The safety of emergency medical services operations became a greater national priority last week when the National Transportation Safety Board added EMS flight operations to its federal “most wanted” list of safety improvements for 2009.
Hospitals and health systems interested in ways to avoid a visit from a contractor in the Medicare recovery audit program are finding it to be more difficult than it might sound.
Publicly traded health insurers’ profits are getting hit hard, in part because of exposure to the ongoing credit crisis, enough so that attention is turning to not-for-profit insurers.
When Thomas Frist Jr. announced in 2001 that he was resigning as chairman of HCA, he said he was able to step back from the company because it had recovered from the depths of the government fraud investigation that became public knowledge in...
A board chair for a public hospital was arrested and charged last month for an alleged role in what prosecutors describe as a “criminal enterprise” among the top three executives. It’s an extraordinary case in the Virgin Islands, and hospital...
For evidence of how understanding diversity and cultural competency can improve patient outcomes, Juana Slade points to the obstetrics unit at AnMed Health Medical Center.
When the credit markets were gushing the past few years, for-profit hospital chains filled their canteens. Whether they were prescient or merely lucky, they appear to have gathered enough liquidity to stay quenched through what could be a few dry...
We strive to make Modern Healthcare and all its publications the most credible sources of healthcare business news and information available. The cornerstone of that effort is our Editorial Code of Ethics, which is published here for the...
I think the article (“DNV setting new standard,” Oct. 27, p. 6) is good, and the concept of DNV Healthcare providing a different approach to accreditation is great. Usually competition forces all involved to get better or go away. I look forward to...
U.S. healthcare spending will approach $2.4 trillion this year, approximately 18% of the gross domestic product. The topic remains at the forefront of the current political debate about the economy, particularly because costs continue to increase,...
Healthcare Management Partners hired two former hospital executives. Bruce Buchanan, 58, left his position as CEO of Phoenix Baptist Hospital to join the Philadelphia-based consulting firm as a managing director. Randolph Harrison, 53,...
Outliers often observes that nowadays it’s harder and harder to tell satire from the actual news. I mean, Joe the Plumber? Alan Greenspan’s “shocked disbelief” that there was a flaw in this model of “how the world works”? You can’t make this...
