When FBI agents barged into three Southern California hospitals last week and arrested one of their executives, the government’s healthcare fraud enforcers found their new Exhibit A for justifying robust funding, manpower and policy tools to fight...
The economic downturn and credit crunch that spawned sweeping debt restructuring across healthcare earlier this year haven’t yet yielded similar overhauls in hospital and health system investment portfolios, according to board members and investment...
New Jersey hospitals must cap prices for low- and middle-income uninsured people under one of four healthcare bills signed by New Jersey’s governor. Other enacted bills expand the state’s oversight of troubled hospitals, require hospitals to hold...
When FBI agents barged into three Southern California hospitals last week and arrested one of their executives, the government’s healthcare fraud enforcers found their new Exhibit A for justifying robust funding, manpower and policy tools to fight...
By the end of this week, Memorial Health Services, Huntington Beach, Calif., should know whether it will have to start again in its two-year quest to find a partner or buyer for its 223-bed Anaheim (Calif.) Memorial Medical Center.
Industry officials accuse the CMS of drifting rudderless with its new quality-improvement provisions in the final acute-care inpatient prospective payment system rule for 2009.
An advisory opinion by HHS’ inspector general’s office concerning a gain-sharing agreement between an academic medical center and orthopedic surgery and neurosurgery groups with active staff privileges at the center offers a mixed message.
Industry experts are hoping a new report showing Americans are highly unsatisfied with the country’s healthcare may finally spur stakeholders to ramp up quality improvement, with the report suggesting ways to do so.
Humana continued its trend of scooping up regional provider-owned health plans last week with the planned acquisition of Cariten Healthcare, and reaffirmed its strong commitment to the Medicare Advantage market.
Group purchasing organizations are making a push for hospitals and their suppliers to adopt universal standards for identifying and tracking medical products across the supply chain.
Four healthcare executives convicted of fraud, money laundering and conspiracy related to the collapse of one of healthcare’s largest financing companies last week were sentenced to jail time and ordered to pay back more than $2.4 billion in federal...
Clinix Medical Information Services, Brentwood, Tenn., said that it has acquired MedicWare, Irwindale, Calif., a provider of electronic health records to physician offices and billing companies. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. MedicWare’s...
A rule book used by the federally supported Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology to test electronic health-record systems and the policy manual of the American Medical Association to guide doctors are in apparent conflict...
The economic downturn and credit crunch that spawned sweeping debt restructuring across healthcare earlier this year haven’t yet yielded similar overhauls in hospital and health system investment portfolios, according to board members and investment...
LOS ANGELES—A California state court late last month denied a request by hospitals and other providers to halt a 10% Medicaid rate cut. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled against a preliminary injunction sought by the California...
ST. PAUL, Minn.—Minnesota’s state employees will get $250 on a debit card for out-of-pocket healthcare expenses and have online access to personal health records, pricing and quality data starting next year, Gov. Tim Pawlenty announced. The...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Rhode Island Gov. Donald Carcieri is asking the federal government to increase its contribution to the state’s Medicaid program and allow greater flexibility in how the state uses those dollars to pay for care. In exchange,...
ARLINGTON, TEXAS—Rehabilitation provider HealthSouth Corp., Birmingham, Ala., has completed its previously announced purchase of a 30-bed rehabilitation unit at the Medical Center of Arlington in Texas. Formerly owned by Columbia Medical...
The health insurance lobby’s new “listening tour” on covering the uninsured has raised eyebrows—and hackles—among those on the front lines of healthcare reform. Everyone, of course, remembers the Health Insurance Association of America’s “Harry and...
I appreciate David Burda’s editorial and its free-market-based, common-sense views on the legitimacy of physician ownership in healthcare services (“The senator will see you now,” Aug. 4, p. 23). Our privately held company develops and manages small...
Last October, I had the privilege of testifying before the Senate Finance Committee on behalf of the Healthcare Financial Management Association and Baptist Health South Florida on proposed charity-care standards for tax-exempt hospitals.
Lawrence “Lorry” Massa, 53, was named president and CEO of the Minnesota Hospital Association and will assume the new post in mid-October, the trade group representing 145 hospitals and health systems announced. Massa, CEO of Rice Memorial Hospital...
