Editor's Note:The death toll from the Flagstaff, Ariz., crash reached seven with the death of registered nurse James Taylor, 36, who died July 4. This story has been updated to reflect that.
Leonard Karp thought he was striking out with executives at a hospital in India when he traveled there to pitch a partnership program with U.S. facilities. The chief executive officer just sat there shaking his head back and forth as Karp shuffled...
The CMS proposed to increase Medicare payments for outpatient services with a 3% inflation update to more than 4,000 hospitals and other facilities next year under the outpatient prospective payment system. The CMS projects it will pay the providers...
Editor's Note:The death toll from the Flagstaff, Ariz., crash reached seven with the death of registered nurse James Taylor, 36, who died July 4. This story has been updated to reflect that.
After three years of work, the Joint Commission unveiled revised standards for 2009 that are expected to fundamentally change the relationship between hospital staffers and the accreditation process.
Afrustrated medical lobby last week turned its wrath on Capitol Hill, blasting lawmakers for failing to stop a 10.6% cut in Medicare payments to doctors by July 1.
A major Medicare bill, which stalled in the Senate over partisan bickering late last month, includes some of the most sweeping changes to how the federal government pays providers of kidney-care services, and could be voted on as soon as this week.
The CMS’ newly proposed rules for gain-sharing and other pay-for-performance initiatives released last week could be a significant step toward loosening financial-arrangement restrictions that many believe prevent doctors and hospitals from aligning...
When Tenet Healthcare Corp. shifted its corporate headquarters from Santa Barbara, Calif., to Dallas in 2005, the move perhaps symbolized not only a new direction for the company, but also the decline in California’s importance to Tenet’s fortunes.
Two veteran health insurance executives are set to get a payday with the sale of home health company Apria Healthcare Group to the private-equity firm Blackstone Group.
The American Health Lawyers Association’s annual meeting last week began with a keynote speaker’s take on the challenge presented by increasing healthcare costs and was followed by dueling surrogates arguing the positions of the presumed...
The arrival of last week’s deadline for the New York State Health Department to complete a major portion of a controversial plan to close, merge and restructure hospitals and nursing homes throughout the state has left little doubt that the...
A new system that pays hospitals for inpatient procedures based on the severity of a patient’s condition hasn’t resulted in any drastic cuts or soaring increases to reimbursement. Yet, the industry is feeling a pinch in adjusting to the new Medicare...
Leonard Karp thought he was striking out with executives at a hospital in India when he traveled there to pitch a partnership program with U.S. facilities. The chief executive officer just sat there shaking his head back and forth as Karp shuffled...
LOS ANGELES—The UCLA Medical Center successfully moved to a new facility across the street, the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. Officials relocated 275 hospital patients and 60 psychiatric patients to the new hospital over the period of...
ORLANDO, Fla.—Florida Hospital acquired more than 100 acres near an emerging medical and research park in southeastern Orlando. Jacqueline Lorenzetti, a spokeswoman for the 1,834-bed hospital, declined an interview request last month, but...
A lot has changed in healthcare since you were born (and probably since you finished your first cup of coffee this morning). For the past 32 years, Modern Healthcare has kept its readers informed of those changes—and the changes to...
Advances in biology, genetics and molecular biology are creating a watershed moment in medical science. Those of us at the leading edge of research in the life sciences, especially at academic medical institutions, see extraordinary opportunities.
Playing politics with patient access to care and physician practice viability is the ultimate insult to those of us who serve the population’s medical needs (“Payment cuts stand for now,” June 30, p. 4). I have already closed my practice to new...
Like most people who follow the healthcare industry, I have often bemoaned the fact that 47 million of our fellow citizens lack access to health coverage. I believe that in a country as rich as ours, the fact that so many people live with the...
Banner Health, Phoenix, announced three new CEO appointments. Elizabeth Woodyard is the new CEO of Banner Lassen Medical Center, Susanville, Calif. Woodyard, 55, was previously chief nursing officer of Fairbanks (Alaska) Memorial Hospital.
