Proponents of healthcare quality initiatives are calling on HHS to reverse its decision to shutter an infection-control program under way in intensive-care units at hospitals across Michigan. The program involves a five-step infection-control...
Policymakers and watchdogs who have long relied on guesswork to monitor healthcare’s not-for-profit hospitals won’t be left to speculate much longer. New federal rules, effective in 2008 and 2009, require detailed disclosure on governance policies,...
Financial challenges, such as rising labor costs and bad debt, again ranked as the top concern for hospital chief executive officers, according to a yearly survey by the American College of Healthcare Executives.
A new court ruling has cast into further doubt the notion that municipalities and states can require employers to pay for healthcare for their workers, and could foil efforts, such as in California, to extend coverage to millions of uninsured.
A new study showing low-income, uninsured patients receive few of the $16 billion worth of free drug samples given away yearly by pharmaceutical companies may do little to change the way healthcare providers distribute drug samples, according to...
The CMS has hired New York-based consulting and auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers to perform compliance reviews at healthcare organizations, looking to see how well they meet their obligations to protect healthcare information under the 1996...
The United American Nurses has put some distance between itself and the Service Employees International Union, but not enough, it seems, for four state associations that have left the UAN.
An old attack is back, sort of, for a one-hospital system in Canton, Ohio, that a few years ago faced a lawsuit alleging it paid bounties to brokers who delivered group clients to its subsidiaries’ managed-care plans.
With the closing of the heavily contested $6.3 billion leveraged buyout by the Carlyle Group of long-term-care provider Manor Care, notable healthcare economist Gail Wilensky walked away with $790,110 in consideration for the 18,000 stock options...
Prospect Medical Holdings, which manages medical care of 240,000 HMO enrollees, delayed filing its annual financial report with the Securities and Exchange Commission because of financial restatements of its recent purchase of a four-hospital group...
Attention all healthcare entrepreneurs: There are at least eight shell companies on the public market in desperate search of a worthy healthcare company to buy.
Prevailing wisdom is that no one will have the political appetite in 2008 to make a significant dent in the healthcare industry’s perennially full plate of issues.
Readers of Modern Healthcare know that our primary audience is senior-level executives working in all sectors of the healthcare industry. Each week, we decide what we think they need to know to fulfill our three-pronged mission to inform,...
Your cover story on the implications of hospitals being paid twice for medical errors underscores the need for further research to determine the financial impact of cutting reimbursement for nosocomial infections (“Profitable complications,” Dec.
Every four years, when it’s time to choose a new chief executive for our nation, healthcare consistently ranks near the top of voters’ concerns. Despite the merits or demerits of the various plans being proposed by this year’s crop of candidates,...
Raymond Watts, a physician, was selected to become interim CEO of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Health System after David Hoidal resigns, which was expected to happen late last week, the system announced. Hoidal is leaving to...
Hopes are dim among lobbyists for physicians that Congress will enact a permanent fix to the physician Medicare fee schedule in 2008, despite a still-looming cut that faces the industry in July.
A blogger who has targeted Essent Healthcare and one of its hospitals for ridicule can remain anonymous, a Texas appeals court judge has ruled, unless the Nashville-based company can prove the postings have damaged the company.
