In a small office tucked away in the Arizona Medical Association’s Phoenix headquarters, Brad Tritle is in startup mode. Just last week, Tritle assumed his new job as the first executive director of Arizona Health-e Connection, the state’s...
Physician-owned specialty hospitals are like sick patients struggling to get well, with commercial banks, financing firms and management companies the concerned family members doing what they can to support their recovery. Meanwhile, federal...
HHS rejected a proposal from New York health officials that would have expanded its children’s health insurance program to cover youngsters in families that earn up to four times the federal poverty level. In May, New York officials proposed to HHS...
In a small office tucked away in the Arizona Medical Association’s Phoenix headquarters, Brad Tritle is in startup mode. Just last week, Tritle assumed his new job as the first executive director of Arizona Health-e Connection, the state’s...
With Arizona making strides in its effort to electronically connect the state’s healthcare providers, the federal government last week floated a possible method for funding its own national effort: charging a fee for each transaction taking place on...
A proposed Medicare rule that would tie hospital outpatient payments to a new quality reporting initiative is being called too much, too soon, by the nation’s largest hospital association.
With physician ownership of hospitals continuing as a divisive issue in the industry, the influential Medicare Payment Advisory Commission is looking at approaches to bring physicians and hospitals closer together.
St. Vincent Catholic Medical Centers in New York emerged from bankruptcy on Aug. 31. The reorganization plan was approved by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York on July 27.
Nine months after nine New York hospitals were ordered to “close in an orderly fashion” by a state commission charged with overhauling the state’s crumbling healthcare system, there has been some progress, albeit messy and gut-wrenching.
In a blow to Louisiana healthcare providers, the Louisiana Supreme Court said a failure to have adequate evacuation plans after Hurricane Katrina does not qualify as medical malpractice, which could result in providers paying more for wrongful death...
On the way to erasing an Oregon hospital’s $16.2 million verdict, a federal appeals court last week floated guidelines that could steady the surprisingly shaky antitrust territory of discounts akin to McDonald’s selling meals for less than the...
A decision by IPC-The Hospitalist Co. to pursue a $105 million initial public offering is a sign of the growth seen in the hospitalist industry. The move also could turn into a big payoff for its management, which owns more than 9% of the...
The recent faltering of a regional health information organization in Portland, Ore., and the outright folding of a RHIO in northeastern Pennsylvania could be indicative of a scaling back of some of the more ambitious goals of the RHIO movement,...
Physician-owned specialty hospitals are like sick patients struggling to get well, with commercial banks, financing firms and management companies the concerned family members doing what they can to support their recovery. Meanwhile, federal...
MCKINNEY, Texas—Methodist Health System, Dallas, has purchased about 24 acres of land north of Dallas in McKinney for the site of a 60,000-square-foot specialty hospital and physician office building. Construction on the $30 million facility...
AURORA, Colo.—The new $560 million Children’s Hospital is scheduled to open Sept. 29 on the 227-acre Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora, Colo. It is 73% larger than the 250-bed facility in Denver that it is replacing. The University of...
CHICAGO—Philanthropist and former pediatric nurse Ann Lurie has pledged $100 million to Chicago’s Children’s Memorial Hospital, most of it toward construction of a replacement hospital downtown. “To capture some of the value of new...
BOSTON—Proposed regulations for retail-based clinics from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health drew fire from physician groups during a recent hearing to vet public response to the suggested standards. The standards, released last...
Reforming the nation’s healthcare system has emerged as the top domestic issue in the 2008 presidential campaign. Driving that issue out of the brush are the usual three sharp sticks: access, cost and quality. The system is suffering because of the...
It amazes me that Modern Healthcare lists the 100 most powerful people in healthcare as if it were etched in stone (“Religious Experience,” Aug. 27, p. 8). Your list is a joke! No one in healthcare gives a flying rat’s posterior about this...
Lee Iacocca is one of the great legends of the automotive industry for his tough-minded leadership at both Ford and, later, Chrysler in the ’70s and ’80s.
The Tennessee Hospital Association announced two new hires and a promotion. Mary Layne Van Cleave was promoted to executive vice president and COO of the association. Van Cleave, who joined the THA in 1996, was most recently senior vice...
New York City’s famed Bellevue hospital has long been the subject of stories of literary proportions. Its famous psychiatric patients have included the late Beat poet Gregory Corso and John Lennon assassin Mark David Chapman. Musicians Courtney Love...
