From vendors that touted electronic cabinets that keep track of drug and medical device inventory to handheld inventory-tracking devices to a government-sponsored pilot program that’s endeavoring to launch a global supply-chain inventory tracking...
Two Republican Senate Finance Committee members have called on the White House to reject a proposal from state health officials that would expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program in New York to cover families with annual incomes as high...
Minority executives have launched two splinter associations from the American College of Healthcare Executives that architects say complement, not compete, with the college.
The American Hospital Association finished 2006 with an $11.1 million profit, despite a drop in revenue and income from a year ago thanks to tumbling investment returns.
The resignation of Suzanne Delbanco as chief executive officer of the Leapfrog Group comes at a time of transition for the 7-year-old quality organization of large employers, health plans and providers.
With the approaching late-summer anniversaries of two of the worst disasters in U.S. history—Hurricane Katrina and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks—the American healthcare system’s readiness for public emergencies continues to be a work in...
Hospital executives are scrambling to prepare for a Medicare rule change regarding hospital-acquired infections that has the potential to cut into their revenue.
Novant Health is buying a for-profit diagnostic imaging company that the system believes is a good strategic fit along both geographic and service lines.
Windber (Pa.) Medical Center broke its decade-long affiliation with Conemaugh Health System, officials said last week, which is a gamble that the 57-bed hospital will remain competitive as its former partner grows more centralized.
The Bush administration has signed off on 14 recommendations in a federally funded report by RTI International on how to use electronic health-record systems to detect healthcare fraud and to gather evidence for fraud prosecutions.
Perhaps it was inevitable, but a prominent company that is part of the fastest growing specialty in medicine finds itself in the middle of a coverage disagreement between a hospital and an insurer.
From vendors that touted electronic cabinets that keep track of drug and medical device inventory to handheld inventory-tracking devices to a government-sponsored pilot program that’s endeavoring to launch a global supply-chain inventory tracking...
SEATTLE—Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center says it plans to more than double the number of beds on its main campus. The number of beds will rise from 250 to between 500 and 600, and the 900,000-square-foot main campus will grow to about...
CHICAGO—The University of Chicago Hospitals’ long-planned new pavilion has edged forward with a letter of intent sent to the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board, the first step toward getting a certificate of need. The scale and price tag of...
NEW YORK—St. Vincent Catholic Medical Centers in New York, which is poised to emerge from bankruptcy protection next month, has retained Pei Cobb Freed & Partners to design its new Greenwich Village hospital—a technologically advanced, green...
MURRELLS INLET, S.C.—Waccamaw Community Hospital has sued HHS in U.S. District Court, Charleston, alleging that the agency improperly denied the hospital an urban wage rate for Medicare reimbursements. The denial cost Waccamaw about $1 million, a...
Some parts of the healthcare industry are taking baby steps toward improvement. These modest changes would hardly be news in any other part of the U.S. economy, but in healthcare they’re cause to break out the 100-point type. Some happen by design,...
Larry Garrison, my hospital system’s chief operating officer, called me one morning with a request to help prepare those to whom we must “turn over the car keys some day.”
John Bigalke, currently a partner with Deloitte & Touche USA, has been named U.S. health sciences and government leader, a new role. Bigalke, 53, also will serve as Deloitte’s U.S. health plans leader, which provides services to HMOs, PPOs...
Health Management Associates, Naples, Fla., announced the hiring of two former Triad Hospital executives. Triad, Plano, Texas, was acquired last month by Community Health Systems, Franklin, Tenn., for $6.97 billion in cash and assumed debt.
The smallest physician practices still make up the largest percentage of medical practices as a whole, but their share of the pie is shrinking, according to a study published last week.
