The more things change, the more they stay the same. Hospital chief executive officers made an exit—voluntarily or not—at nearly the same rate last year as 2005. And 2004. And 2003, 2002 and 2001.
Wanted: highly skilled, creative and flexible registered nurses who are willing to work autonomously in isolated regions far from the nearest metropolitan area. Must be available to commute or stay on-site for on-call weekend work. Continuing...
Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, the highest ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, called on federal auditors to study how not-for-profit hospitals meet the somewhat loose standards that dictate their favorable tax-exempt status. In a letter...
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Hospital chief executive officers made an exit—voluntarily or not—at nearly the same rate last year as 2005. And 2004. And 2003, 2002 and 2001.
The CMS last week said it would raise its payments—and likely the ire of federal lawmakers—to the 589 health insurance plans that operate in its Medicare Advantage program.
Six hospitals will share a federal grant of about $161 million over the next seven years to significantly boost influenza research and expand an international surveillance program on the virus, government officials announced last week.
Whether your mom let you out of cleaning your room, your professor postponed that big exam, the office called to reschedule your colonoscopy or the CMS relaxed your looming compliance deadline, the feeling is the same. Relief, followed by anxiety...
Trade groups for hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers agree that the payment system for ASCs needs to change, but don’t see eye to eye on how that system should be implemented.
It’s unclear whether physicians will take the financial bait of a new program the CMS is rolling out this summer that offers more money for participation in a quality reporting program.
Premier’s acquisition of the CareScience clinical data-mining unit owned by Quovadx will expand the reach and the breadth of services for customers of both the companies, but it will take several months and maybe as long as a year before that...
Timothy Zoph, a vice president and chief information officer for Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, was appointed to the board of directors for Technology Solutions Co., a healthcare consultancy specializing in radio frequency identification,...
Tenet Healthcare Corp., Dallas, has agreed to pay a $10 million civil penalty to settle 4-year-old charges that it concealed a scheme to meet earnings targets by exploiting a loophole in the Medicare payment system, according to the Securities and...
Nominations for Modern Healthcare’s sixth annual ranking of the 100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare are now open. Starting April 9, readers can visit Modern Healthcare Online, the magazine’s Web site at modernhealthcare.com, and nominate a...
Initially, healthcare information technology meant financial systems. More recently, much of the focus in healthcare has been on clinical applications.
Wanted: highly skilled, creative and flexible registered nurses who are willing to work autonomously in isolated regions far from the nearest metropolitan area. Must be available to commute or stay on-site for on-call weekend work. Continuing...
Erie County Medical Center raised some hackles last week when it said it will move ahead with plans for a $91.7 million, 56-bed heart and vascular care facility “in keeping with the wishes of New York’s Commission on Health Care Facilities in the...
CINCINNATI—A county judge is scheduled to rule April 16 on the nasty legal battle between the seven-hospital Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati and three facilities that want to leave the system. Closing arguments were made last week in...
NEW YORK—New agreements with two New York hospitals will ensure that patients can make educated decisions about getting tested for predisposition to genetic diseases, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said. The agreements with...
AUSTELL, Ga.—Kaiser Permanente of Georgia, in the midst of a $35 million expansion project, has opened its first “green building” in the state—a 26,000-square-foot clinic in suburban Atlanta. West Cobb Medical Center, the 13th Kaiser...
A new study debunking the value of angioplasty for nonemergency patients must be creating stress-related pain among heart surgeons and other providers. Following up on earlier studies with similar findings about angioplasty and drug-eluting stents,...
One morning several years ago, I reviewed reports at my desk showing that my hospital remained at the absolute top of the universe in patient satisfaction and in the top quintile of publicly reported quality and safety measures. Then I walked down...
One morning several years ago, I reviewed reports at my desk showing that my hospital remained at the absolute top of the universe in patient satisfaction and in the top quintile of publicly reported quality and safety measures. Then I walked down...
As a practicing urologist, I was infuriated by Rep. Pete Stark’s comment, “I’ve been in this business for 34 years and they’ve (physicians) never been happy with what we've given them" ("Fighting for their share," March 12, p. 6).
With 15 acquisitions in the past three years, IPC-The Hospitalist Co. is driving the trend of acquiring smaller practices in what appears to be the beginning of a consolidation in the fledgling hospitalist industry.
Reporters have been in a lot of legal hot water of late, with federal prosecutors and judges around the country threatening them and throwing them in jail for refusing to divulge the names of sources, but one journalist was arrested late last month...
