Slowly turning up the heat for several years now, the CMS has been preparing hospitals for the first course in a major transformation of the Medicare reimbursement system called value-based purchasing.
In recent years, particularly since 2004, when President Bush created HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, most of the federal focus on healthcare IT has been on promoting the adoption of clinical applications...
The CMS, after a stalled first attempt late last year, said it is recruiting rural hospitals for a gain-sharing demonstration project authorized under federal law. The project is part of a broader look by the CMS to see whether or not such...
Slowly turning up the heat for several years now, the CMS has been preparing hospitals for the first course in a major transformation of the Medicare reimbursement system called value-based purchasing.
In the wake of yet another proposed fee cut for Medicare physicians, the physician lobby is banking on a legislative proposal that seeks to eliminate the threat of future payment reductions.
After a planned acquisition by Ascension Health collapsed, Caritas Christi Health Care returns to the market with a question mark for future prospective buyers.
The sentencing of Richard Scrushy late last month for alleged bribery offered a reminder to healthcare executives that state certificate-of-need programs are likely to remain under close scrutiny by enforcement agencies.
A federal judge in New Jersey has tossed out a lawsuit that argued thousands of hospitals deserve to be compensated by a system that allegedly gamed Medicare’s outlier program. The decision is sending ripples to Florida, where Tenet Healthcare Corp.
Last week’s decision by a Louisiana district attorney to not pursue charges against two nurses accused of helping to kill four hospital patients after Hurricane Katrina isn’t necessarily bad news for Anna Pou, the physician also implicated in the...
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan recently hit two neighboring physicians groups in east-central Illinois with an antitrust lawsuit alleging they conspired to boycott new Medicaid patients, intending to squeeze the state for higher and faster...
Concerns over the role of retail-based clinics in patient care has intensified, with a growing number of physicians and medical associations calling on state and federal officials to closely monitor and create standards for the clinics.
The signature event at the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s Annual National Institute in San Diego late last month was the release of a new report that urges hospital financial executives to lead the way in overhauling hospital pricing...
In recent years, particularly since 2004, when President Bush created HHS’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, most of the federal focus on healthcare IT has been on promoting the adoption of clinical applications...
It should be clear by now that unless the federal government mandates a single healthcare information technology platform for all healthcare providers and heavily subsidizes its adoption, we won’t meet President Bush’s goal of a national electronic...
The U.S. spends more than $2 trillion on medical care every year, and offers the best medical technology in the world. Americans have their choice of top doctors and hospitals, and our national investment in scientific research has paid off...
The study by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology showing an alarming increase in the rates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, in hospital settings points up the dangers of remaining...
Life can be so simple and yet many people seem to need to complicate everything. Bureaucrats are famous for doing this and often take something very basic and turn it into a complicated, mind-boggling and frustrating experience.
Rank did not mean privilege when it came to exceeding the allotted speaking time during committee testimony at last month’s meeting of the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates as both a past president and the current president were cut...
