The passage of a landmark bill that prohibits discrimination by employers and health insurers based on genetic-test outcomes will pave the way for greater participation in genetic testing with providers playing an increasing role in educating...
A measure to effectively kill seven Medicaid regulations and another to restrict physician ownership of hospitals were added to preliminary drafts of legislation meant to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, though it’s unclear whether they’ll...
The passage of a landmark bill that prohibits discrimination by employers and health insurers based on genetic-test outcomes will pave the way for greater participation in genetic testing with providers playing an increasing role in educating...
CMS officials initiated a clampdown on the Medicare Advantage program by proposing new marketing rules last week, while Congress made little progress on a legislative fix to the way that Medicare reimburses doctors.
A flurry of deals in recent weeks in which established healthcare companies scooped up consulting firms with expertise in revenue-cycle management may signal that hospitals are perhaps entering a “squeeze blood from a stone” phase in financial...
Tenet Healthcare Corp., Dallas, posted its third straight quarter of decent results last week and even has turned around its toughest critic among stock analysts, but Trevor Fetter acknowledges that the company still has a ways to go.
The ongoing shortage of nurses, despite new data that show improved supply, has a leading workforce analyst looking to an uncharacteristic source for more nurses: men.
A startup company vying to pitch patient-safety software to hospital executives blanketed state hospital associations with a novel marketing message that was heard as a threat: Unless member hospitals were encouraged to look into the product,...
Although still cautious with their money, not-for-profit hospitals and systems have proven more comfortable subsidizing electronic health records for the practices of staff physicians since the Internal Revenue Service sought to remove itself as an...
Usually when the U.S. Secret Service shows up at our newsroom in Chicago, a third of the editorial staff opens the window and climbs down the fire escape. But earlier this month, they stuck around to enjoy a personal visit from HHS Secretary Mike...
The fact that Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Pete Stark (D-Calif.) don’t like health savings accounts shouldn’t discourage the rest of us (“Health savings accounts mostly used as tax shelter for rich: GAO,” Late News, May 5, p. 4).
A friend of mine recently sent me some quotes from a talk that Bill Gates supposedly made some years back to a group of high school students. He was alleged to have given the kids some seriously tough love, including telling them, “Life isn’t fair.
In a twist on an arrangement typically used to align hospital and physician interests in specialty service areas, SSM Health Care, St. Louis, is testing new inpatient-care processes through a company jointly owned by one of its hospitals and six...
In a sure sign of true notoriety—and a rare event in healthcare—former National Century Financial Enterprises executive Rebecca Parrett has made the list of “America’s Most Wanted.”
