Michigan’s largest health insurer is under fire from the state attorney general over how it operates its for-profit subsidiaries. And the insurer faces a tough fight in the Legislature as it seeks to loosen state controls on how it operates its...
According to at least one healthcare compensation expert, because of a shrinking supply of doctors and increasing demand, some physicians may soon see their services "turn into a barrel of oil," meaning they could become a commodity priced so high...
Physicians are waiting with bated breath to see what the president will do with a veto-proof Medicare bill that will stave off cuts to their Medicare payments through 2009.
A controversial Medicare program has recovered $1 billion in improver payments made since 2005, for a net gain of $693.6 million for the government, even though hospitals and members of Congress remain skeptical of its motive and methods.
Michigan’s largest health insurer is under fire from the state attorney general over how it operates its for-profit subsidiaries. And the insurer faces a tough fight in the Legislature as it seeks to loosen state controls on how it operates its...
Hospitals will have greater reason to crack down on unruly medical staff and employees now that the Joint Commission is forcing them to scrutinize disruptive behavior more closely.
Three months after the Joint Commission released its last sentinel-event alert regarding pediatrics medication safety, 14 infants in Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-South received overdoses of the blood thinner heparin.
Cardinal Health’s announcement last week that it will eliminate 600 jobs and consolidate the Dublin, Ohio-based company’s four business units into two primary segments and a third noncore unit should have little to no effect on provider customers,...
Huron Consulting Group made its largest acquisition with a $219 million deal that underscores healthcare’s importance to the Chicago firm’s accelerating growth.
The residential real estate market may have slowed to a crawl, but the property market for healthcare services is still chugging along. Healthcare real estate investment trusts, or REITs, are strongly outperforming their peers that focus on other...
Five physician informaticists and four healthcare organizations are winners of the 2008 Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems’ AMDIS Awards for excellence and achievement in applied medical informatics.
According to at least one healthcare compensation expert, because of a shrinking supply of doctors and increasing demand, some physicians may soon see their services "turn into a barrel of oil," meaning they could become a commodity priced so high...
Are Harry and Louise lurking in the pantry again, ready to derail federal health reform like they did in 1994? Not necessarily. Recent state health reform efforts indicate a changing dynamic in which health plans could become a valuable ally of...
Modern Physician, Modern Healthcare’s sister’s publication, is pleased to announce its first Physician Entrepreneur of the Year awards program. This new annual awards program is designed to recognize physicians who have made their mark...
Joe Martin’s Independence Day holiday unexpectedly lasted a day longer than expected. Martin’s employer, the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council abruptly closed at the end of June after political wrangling stalled a bill needed to keep...
