When International Hospital Corp. opened the first of its 10 hospitals spread throughout Brazil, Costa Rica and Mexico, the Dallas-based provider’s sole focus was to offer the kind of high-quality healthcare that had long prompted residents of those...
When opening arguments first got under way in the criminal trial of five former executives of the defunct National Century Financial Enterprises this past February, it became apparent that healthcare’s convoluted financing system also was going to...
The House passed a bill that makes it illegal for employers and insurers to deny coverage to a person based on their genetic makeup. The legislation, called the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, passed on a 414-1 vote and now goes to...
When International Hospital Corp. opened the first of its 10 hospitals spread throughout Brazil, Costa Rica and Mexico, the Dallas-based provider’s sole focus was to offer the kind of high-quality healthcare that had long prompted residents of those...
A rift between one of the most powerful healthcare lawmakers on Capitol Hill and the American Medical Association has some healthcare experts wondering if the AMA has lost its touch as a lobbying power and Beltway advocate for physicians.
Americans continue to struggle with healthcare access and affordability, straining their pocketbooks and pushing the healthcare system to the brink, according to a flurry of studies released last week during Cover the Uninsured Week.
The Federal Trade Commission left mixed clues as to the path forward in hospital merger challenges as it issued its final order and opinion in the Evanston (Ill.) Northwestern Healthcare case last week.
In an example of entrepreneurial initiative on a shoestring, St. Clair Memorial Hospital in Pittsburgh announced last week that it has sold its startup company, Sculptor Developmental Technologies, to Hospira, a global specialty pharmaceutical...
MedAssets’ $350 million purchase of its competitor Accuro Healthcare Solutions continues the group’s shift toward becoming a revenue-cycle management provider, according to company executives.
A new report issued last week by an Association of American Medical Colleges task force could result in major changes in how drugs and medical devices are marketed to physicians, if the report is approved by the group’s Executive Council.
When opening arguments first got under way in the criminal trial of five former executives of the defunct National Century Financial Enterprises this past February, it became apparent that healthcare’s convoluted financing system also was going to...
The recent revelation that Steven Nissen, the top Cleveland Clinic cardiologist, failed to disclose his financial ties to the maker of a diabetes drug while detailing a competing drug’s cardiac risks in the New England Journal of Medicine is...
Hospitals that want to stay out of trouble these days shouldn’t enter into a contractual relationship with physicians without first having legal review and opinions regarding compliance with Stark regulations as well as data regarding customary...
On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, after the World Trade Center attack, I raced to the office to meet with senior staff to review our disaster plans and monitor the events in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. Even though we were 3,000 miles away...
Novation, Irving, Texas, appointed Jack Langenberg, 40, CFO. Langenberg took over the newly created position in March, according to a Novation spokeswoman. He was vice president of finance for the global staffing company Kelly Services prior...
In accepting his latest and perhaps highest honor—the Congressional Gold Medal—99-year-old heart surgeon Michael DeBakey showed he still has plenty of fight left, even if the battle he chose would surely raise some eyebrows in the industry.
