The early returns from a CMS pilot program that aims to better coordinate and manage care for chronically ill patients fails to show significant financial savings, and the program has put the participating companies at risk of potentially losing...
Like a shark-attack victim screwing up the courage to splash in the surf again, the president of 319-bed St. Francis Hospital and Health Centers in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., mused in the local paper in December 2006 that he was open to exploring ways to...
Supply and demand mixing with quality-of-life issues drove the results of Modern Healthcare’s annual survey of physician compensation, which shows oncologists, pathologists and psychiatrists receiving on average double-digit pay increases in...
James Holsinger Jr.’s nomination as the next U.S. surgeon general evolved into a debate of politics vs. science as legislators weighed testimony suggesting prior
The Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati eliminated the job of chief medical officer as part of an effort to cut spending by $40 million annually in the wake of an April court ruling that allowed three alliance hospitals to exit the system, an...
Like a shark-attack victim screwing up the courage to splash in the surf again, the president of 319-bed St. Francis Hospital and Health Centers in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., mused in the local paper in December 2006 that he was open to exploring ways to...
Seven years ago, a federal judge in White Plains, N.Y., ruled that an agreement two Poughkeepsie hospitals proposed as an effort to avoid duplicating capital-intensive services was in fact a mechanism for illegally fixing prices and divvying up...
The early returns from a CMS pilot program that aims to better coordinate and manage care for chronically ill patients fails to show significant financial savings, and the program has put the participating companies at risk of potentially losing...
The 10 participants in a CMS physician group practice pay-for-performance demonstration project achieved impressive performance targets for diabetes care, but only two qualified for financial rewards resulting from savings to the Medicare...
Last year, the Sisters of Mercy Health System took on the challenge of getting medical staff from its 18 hospitals in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma committed to purchasing a more limited list of product options.
A new Joint Commission standard, which took four years to develop, has gained acceptance from hospital industry groups after clarifying that a hospital’s board of trustees has the final say on a hospital’s decision making.
Physician entrepreneur Prem Reddy’s buying spree of troubled not-for-profit hospitals in Southern California stumbled last week when the California attorney general denied the proposed $55 million sale of 224-bed Anaheim (Calif.) Memorial Medical...
With the addition of an eighth defendant, there was some movement last week in the long-simmering case against former executives of National Century Financial Enterprises, the healthcare financing giant whose collapse brought down hundreds of...
Battle lines emerged last week over two wildly different legislative blueprints that aim to reauthorize and expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. Members from both chambers of Congress and the White House itself were embroiled in...
Several advocacy groups have pledged support for new legislation that would provide more choices to adults with disabilities, but a union official says workers deserve more training and pay as part of a broader reform of the long-term-care system in...
Gordon Schiff is leaving his posts as director of clinical quality research and improvement at Chicago’s 460-bed John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County and professor of medicine at Rush Medical College to become an associate professor at...
Please welcome reporter Rebecca Vesely to our editorial staff. Vesely, 36, covers healthcare payers and purchasers out of our San Francisco office. She also covers regional healthcare business news in Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Oregon and...
A misinterpretation of the Healthcare Executive Search Firms Survey led to incorrect rankings within the top 10 firms of the 20 largest healthcare executive search firms “By the Numbers” list (July 2/9, p. 32). Corrected charts are available in the...
The Food and Drug Administration is no stranger to taking heat in its role as the lead federal safety regulator of the pharmaceutical industry. The FDA has taken some flak as well from privacy experts over healthcare information technology, as it...
Supply and demand mixing with quality-of-life issues drove the results of Modern Healthcare’s annual survey of physician compensation, which shows oncologists, pathologists and psychiatrists receiving on average double-digit pay increases in...
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich.—Henry Ford Health System is now the sole owner of St. Joseph’s Healthcare and has renamed the system Henry Ford Macomb Hospitals. Since 1990, Henry Ford has been an equal partner in the system with Trinity Health,...
DETROIT—St. John Health System is closing 285-bed St. John Detroit Riverview Hospital, but the planned sale of the site isn’t likely to close anytime soon. A state court judge last week granted a temporary injunction against the Barbara Ann Karmanos...
DENVER—Six Kentucky hospitals owned by one of the largest Catholic health systems are striking out on an ambitious expansion plan that its executives say hinges on aggressive local consolidation.
CHESTERTOWN, Md.—A Maryland judge has denied a temporary restraining order filed against Chester River Health System board members as part of a broader move meant to scuttle merger talks between the one-hospital system and the larger...
LOUISVILLE, Ky.—The University Medical Center, a not-for-profit corporation controlling the 330-bed University Hospital at the University of Louisville, has terminated a management partnership with competitors Jewish Hospital &
The American Medical Association is calling for a federal investigation of what it terms a “clear, inherent conflict of interest” in health clinics co-habiting with pharmacies and other retail stores. The AMA also questions whether these facilities...
Regarding the comments by Joseph Fifer in your Strictly Finance section in favor of market-based pricing (“Getting the pricing right,” July 2/9, p. 31): Since the majority of our reimbursement is below costs, a disproportionate burden is placed on...
Joseph Vumbacco, the vice chairman and director of Health Management Associates, recently forwarded me a message from a friend of his who is dying of cancer. Vumbacco says his friend is “a good father, a devoted husband and a successful businessman...
A former information technology manager for America’s Health Insurance Plans faces deportation and prison time for steering nearly $1 million of the association’s money to a front company in which he was the sole director, employee and...
D. McWilliams Kessler was named president and CEO of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, effective July 16. He succeeds Joseph Corcoran, 64, who recently retired after serving as president and CEO for 13 years. Kessler, 54, most...
Physicians are discovering that investing in their medical office buildings provides multiple advantages over traditional renting, such as lower operating costs, the potential for long-term equity growth, tax breaks, more spacious offices, location...
The American Medical Association House of Delegates voted at its annual meeting to let the National Quality Forum know it was keeping an eye on what the forum is doing.
An article published in this month’s Journal of the American College of Surgeons concludes that visits from a robot helped gastric bypass patients get well faster and go home sooner. But let’s get this clear before we go on. The robot rounds...
