The nation’s best performing healthcare systems continue to improve efficiency and have the bottom lines to show it, judging from results of a yearly survey of integrated health networks.
The defeat of a comprehensive healthcare reform plan in California last week may signal bad news for other states looking to expand coverage of the uninsured, because many had hoped Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plan could be replicated across the...
The overall cost of the Medicare Part D program to beneficiaries and taxpayers is lower than previously estimated and customer satisfaction is high, CMS officials announced. Kerry Weems, acting CMS administrator, indicated in a teleconference that...
The defeat of a comprehensive healthcare reform plan in California last week may signal bad news for other states looking to expand coverage of the uninsured, because many had hoped Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plan could be replicated across the...
A senior Veterans Affairs Department official told lawmakers last week that his confidence in the quality of care that veterans receive has been shaken and that parts of the veterans health system that once were bragged about now seem outdated or in...
Healthcare supply-chain experts said they are troubled by two government reports showing the Food and Drug Administration is unable to properly inspect and monitor medical-device manufacturers, but most experts are uncertain what, if anything, group...
Members of Congress last week resisted pressures to funnel more money into the ailing Food and Drug Administration, which, according to new analyses, is foundering in its responsibility to keep drugs and medical devices safe.
It may have looked desperate when a couple of Southern California healthcare systems and a small, independent laboratory went to court last week to stop an imminent federal program in its tracks. But other efforts to throw a lawsuit in front of a...
It won’t take much to make the third time the charm for Memorial Health Services, Huntington Beach, Calif. Crossing the finish line on a sale of 223-bed Anaheim (Calif.) Memorial Medical Center would seem to suffice.
The American College of Physicians asked the presidential candidates to take a pledge that promotes certain policies the organization believes will make the U.S. health system second to none.
A series of recent upper-management changes at group purchasing organization Amerinet, St. Louis, is part of a growth plan set in motion last May, according to Amerinet President and Chief Executive Officer Todd Ebert.
The hospital industry’s supposed recession-proofing is being tested as the credit markets melt around it, but perhaps none of the various meltdowns has reached closer to home than the credit crisis embroiling the bond insurers.
The nation’s best performing healthcare systems continue to improve efficiency and have the bottom lines to show it, judging from results of a yearly survey of integrated health networks.
While it seems just about every medical association in Georgia is taking sides, participants agree that the latest fight between hospitals and physicians won’t spill across state lines.
PHILADELPHIA—Albert Einstein Healthcare Network, Philadelphia, and Jefferson Health System, Radnor, Pa., said they are negotiating the terms of “an amicable separation” after 10 years, concluding that they can better serve their respective...
GREENSBORO, N.C.—Moses Cone Health System reported a 12.9% increase in operating income for fiscal 2007, ended Sept. 30, 2007, compared with fiscal 2006, but its net income fell 6.8%, as fiscal 2006 included a $26.1 million gain related to the sale...
DENVER—Exempla Healthcare filed a second lawsuit as part of its effort to block one of its co-owners, the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth Health System, from buying out its partner, the Community First Foundation of Arvada, Colo. In a letter sent...
MELROSE PARK, Ill.—Loyola University Health System, Maywood, Ill., last week offered the first details on its plans to acquire 266-bed Gottlieb Memorial Hospital in the neighboring western Chicago suburb of Melrose Park. In December Loyola filed a...
We’re still scratching our heads over this one. In what industry other than healthcare would it be acceptable for the chief executive officer of one company to serve on the board of a new company competing in the same industry? But that’s exactly...
Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute, is surely correct in arguing that the amount of influence that would be wielded by members of a program proposed by the Institute of Medicine to oversee clinical effectiveness...
A recent Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive survey indicated that a majority of Americans believe electronic medical records can reduce healthcare costs while improving patient care. Yet, the number of physicians using EMRs still hovers...
Kevin Scanlan, 58, president and CEO of the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council, was elected chairman of the Conference of Metropolitan Hospital Associations through December 2008, replacing Linda Quick, president of the South Florida...
