In its massive plan intended to alleviate the nation’s financial crisis late last week, Congress also made history by mandating that mental health coverage be equal to medical-surgical benefits when employers include both in their health...
Outsourcing some services was hardly a new practice at Minneapolis-based Allina Hospitals & Clinics when Sarah Charai came on as manager of purchased services in 2003. What was new, however, was the 11-hospital provider’s need to centralize its...
Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama have “fundamentally different visions” of how they would reform healthcare as president, and Obama’s is better, according to a new comparison by the Commonwealth Fund. The plan proposed by Obama, the Illinois...
Cardinal Health, Dublin, Ohio, agreed to pay $34 million in civil penalties to settle allegations that it failed to report suspicious orders made by Internet pharmacies for the opioid hydrocodone, which were diverted for illegal use, according to a...
Hospitals may have an incentive to underreport their healthcare-associated infections, and states lack the ability to find out if the number of infections hospitals report is accurate, according to Health-Care-Associated Infections in Hospitals:...
Community Health Systems completed its purchase of two-hospital Empire Health Services, a locally owned, independent not-for-profit in Spokane, Wash., for $148 million. “We are very pleased to put this lengthy period of negotiation and approval...
The Revolution Health Network, developer of the consumer healthcare information Web portal revolutionhealth.com, and Waterfront Media, New York, owner of the consumer-oriented Everyday Health Network, will merge, according to a news release.
In its massive plan intended to alleviate the nation’s financial crisis late last week, Congress also made history by mandating that mental health coverage be equal to medical-surgical benefits when employers include both in their health...
Even in an industry where more than $2 trillion is spent annually, the $700 billion price tag attached to the federal bailout of Wall Street raised eyebrows among health policy analysts.
It is a tale of three committees: one fading into history, a second forming to take its place and a proposed third that might supplant the first and render the second moot.
A recent alarming tally of nursing home deficiencies is skewed by a flawed survey process that the CMS may be moving away from, according to the industry’s largest trade group and other experts on long-term care.
The pen is mightier than the sword, as California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger showed last week when vetoing many of the healthcare reform provisions he championed last year during his energetic push for comprehensive healthcare reform.
HHS’ inspector general’s office posted its to-do list for the next year, providing hospitals and physicians a 115-page guide to what the watchdog intends to watch.
A federal appellate court ruling last week in favor of San Francisco’s universal healthcare access program could energize efforts to enact healthcare reform on a local or statewide basis should the decision hold, legal experts said.
Longtime HCA executive Richard Bracken is inheriting control of a company that appears unlikely to stray from its present path as it uses healthy revenue to pay down debt from its massive 2006 privatization.
For Gary Newsome, a decade at Community Health Systems was something like a finishing school for his new job as president and chief executive officer of Health Management Associates, Naples, Fla.
Outsourcing some services was hardly a new practice at Minneapolis-based Allina Hospitals & Clinics when Sarah Charai came on as manager of purchased services in 2003. What was new, however, was the 11-hospital provider’s need to centralize its...
A few years ago, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel of distinguished patient-safety experts at a Joint Commission conference in Chicago. During the question-and-answer session, one of the attendees asked me what Modern Healthcare thought was...
Each year, millions of consumers nationwide turn to Consumer Reports for independent, unbiased tests of consumer goods or services such as cars, appliances, electronics, food and financial services. Publishing these independent findings helps...
I just read your article (“Zerhouni quitting NIH director post,” Modern Healthcare Online, Sept. 24). The word that comes to mind is “conflation.” You conflated conflicts-of-interest probes with Elias Zerhouni’s leaving the National Institutes of...
It is tremendously exciting to transform a struggling hospital to one that can boast high quality, national respect and financial stability. But a dramatic turnaround in hospital operations is not a sprint to a finish line. It is an ongoing marathon...
Brim Healthcare, Brentwood, Tenn., named Phillip Mazzuca to be its next president and CEO, effective on or before Dec. 21. Mazzuca, 49, succeeds Dave Woodland, 60, who is retiring after 21 years with the company. Woodland will remain...
The group-purchasing organization Broadlane, Dallas, appointed Tom Sherry COO. Sherry, 59, replaces David Ricker, who in August became president and CEO. Sherry was executive vice president of Broadlane’s client-care division prior to...
America Service Group announced that its chairman and CEO, Michael Catalano, will resign effective Jan. 1, 2009, after 12 years with the Brentwood, Tenn., company. Catalano, 56, will be replaced by Richard Hallworth in January as CEO.
Brim Healthcare, Brentwood, Tenn., named Phillip Mazzuca to be its next president and CEO, effective on or before Dec. 21. Mazzuca, 49, succeeds Dave Woodland, 60, who is retiring after 21 years with the company. Woodland will remain...
At age 6, Adam Singer spent hours walking the halls of a Los Angeles hospital owned by his father, a physician. He probably did not realize it at the time, but his adult career would ultimately capitalize on the nexus between those two worlds—that...
With a financial crisis to fight and Election Day just weeks away, it’s hard to imagine that congressional leaders have time to consider much else. But on Sept. 24—days before the $700 billion bailout plan was brought to Congress for a vote—the...
The healthcare industry has its share of ridiculous acronyms—don’t get us started on the Prometheus program (May 26, p. 17)—but the news releases coming out of the recent European Society of Cardiology meeting in Munich bordered on parody.
“It’s staggering to me that as a country, in a matter of weeks, we are going to move forward a program to bail out or buy out debt on Wall Street that’s in the area of $700 billion and over the course of the last two years we have not been able...
