The Federal Trade Commission’s first attempt in a decade to persuade a federal judge to delay a hospital deal may signal the beginning of a drive to build on its groundbreaking work in the suburbs north of Chicago.
Issues surrounding the law and medical records always have converged, but the advent of powerful electronic health-record systems in healthcare have added whole new levels of complexity to that relationship.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a 2005 Federal Trade Commission decision that North Texas Specialty Physicians, an association of independent practices in and around Fort Worth, engaged in illegal price-fixing. The FTC initiated the...
The Federal Trade Commission’s first attempt in a decade to persuade a federal judge to delay a hospital deal may signal the beginning of a drive to build on its groundbreaking work in the suburbs north of Chicago.
A case of cosmic timing? Evanston (Ill.) Northwestern Healthcare last week initiated a bid to buy a fourth hospital a few weeks after the Federal Trade Commission wrapped up its antitrust challenge of the system’s last acquisition. And that was just...
Hospitals and physicians are girding themselves for a battle over a CMS auditing program that they believe will rack up huge costs, administrative burdens and lost time with patients.
A new report indicating that physician-hospital gain-sharing programs could save millions of dollars without compromising care may not be enough to push the government into implementing such projects.
Some of the wealthiest not-for-profit health systems in the country put on their lipstick and powdered their balance sheets, reporting at last week’s ninth annual Non-Profit Health Care Investor Conference in New York that the credit market turmoil...
The Commonwealth Fund laid out a new proposal to cover 44 million uninsured nationwide, or roughly 92%, and save $1.6 trillion over 10 years, but stakeholders expressed skepticism, saying it doesn’t offer enough solutions to control costs or...
On the same day that a leading advocacy group introduced a plan to reform healthcare using insurance coverage requirements and employer mandates, a healthcare executive group released its own plan based on market solutions.
The healthcare industry’s effort to improve safety is being held back by a lack of communication with patients and a need for better standards for measuring safety. Those were among the messages delivered to attendees of the National Patient Safety...
In a highly unusual move, the Federal Trade Commission named one of its commissioners to preside over its challenge of Falls Church, Va.-based Inova Health System’s planned acquisition of Prince William Health System, Manassas, Va.
A new study that measures how equitably hospitals treat their gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender patients and their families could be an effective tool for providers to learn what this patient population expects and how to meet those...
The race is on to reshape the individual health insurance market, as health plans increasingly come under fire from state regulators, patient groups and the courts for revoking policies after customers fall ill.
Issues surrounding the law and medical records always have converged, but the advent of powerful electronic health-record systems in healthcare have added whole new levels of complexity to that relationship.
INDIANAPOLIS—The CMS gave Indiana the green light to expand its State Children’s Health Insurance Program to families with incomes up to 2½ times the federal poverty level—roughly $53,000 for a family of four—a move state officials said would...
OAKLAND, Calif.—Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, a 509-bed facility, opened its $13 million Carol Ann Read Breast Health Center designed to be a national model in community-based patient care, diagnosis and treatment. The 11,000-square-foot,...
NEW YORK—NYU Medical Center last month said it is renaming itself the NYU Elaine A. and Kenneth G. Langone Medical Center in honor of the chairman of its board of trustees and his wife, who gave an unrestricted $200 million gift to the...
MCKINNEY, Texas—Dallas-based Methodist Health System began construction early last month on Methodist McKinney Hospital, a 65,625-square-foot facility that will be a joint venture among Methodist, Nueterra Healthcare and 26 physicians in the...
While efforts to craft a system of high-quality, cost-efficient healthcare in this country are making some headway, progress is incremental and is taking place in small silos. The tectonic pressure from growing costs and loss of insurance coverage...
Generations of Americans have grown up believing that the economy can only grow and that Social Security and Medicare will always be there when they retire. But healthcare costs are rising so much faster than the rest of the economy, so one must ask...
I enjoyed Jessica Zigmond’s article on the building of replacement critical-access hospitals (“Bound by bureaucracy,” May 5, p. 28), but the statement, “By definition, critical-access hospitals cannot have more than 25 beds and also receive...
Never before have the communities we serve been as culturally diverse as they are today. Nor have we ever employed such an equally multicultural workforce. That is why my organization felt it was critical to adapt to these changes—particularly if we...
Medical tourism expert Michael Horowitz isn’t one to outsource his research, though he usually doesn’t go to the extremes that he did earlier this year while inspecting Singapore hospitals catering to foreign patients.
