Oncology, more than most areas of medicine, relies on the trial-and-error method of experimentation to develop treatments. There isn’t one regimen, procedure or drug that will solve the host of problems that cancer creates. In a similar way, the...
Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) urged HHS to complete regulations that will give the federal government stronger control over healthcare safety issues. In a letter to HHS, Kennedy calls for the issuance of rules mandated through the Patient Safety and...
The State Children’s Health Insurance Program will get reauthorized by the end of the year despite the seemingly wide gulf between President Bush and congressional leaders on the matter, healthcare experts said. But a compromise isn’t likely to be...
Healthcare reform proposals that mix private and public insurance got a boost last week with an endorsement from an influential group of industry players.
The Senate appears close to passing a broad domestic funding bill that includes increased money for several HHS programs, setting the stage for another probable veto from President Bush.
Federal lawmakers continue to take swings at Medicare Advantage plans, with members of Congress looking to cut funding to the program to increase support for other parts of Medicare.
With the public becoming increasingly aware of the dangers of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection, healthcare regulators and hospital administrators are left scrambling to show that they’re doing something about the problem.
In an announcement all too familiar to accredited hospitals, the Joint Commission last week said it will launch a new consulting service to help providers comply with a new set of accreditation standards. This time, it’s new medical staff...
A new study showing medical institutions are as likely to sign up for financial relationships with industry as individual physicians and researchers will likely spur greater scrutiny of those arrangements, but a wholesale ban is unlikely, healthcare...
Like kids left to care for themselves without supervision, U.S. healthcare providers lack sufficient guidance on how to treat the nation’s nearly 74 million children during a possible pandemic flu outbreak, a new report argues.
Stepping far beyond the precepts of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the light it shines on publicly traded companies, the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector released a report last week that among other things encourages not-for-profit organizations to...
Cal Pierson, president and chief executive officer of the Maryland Hospital Association said that he would retire from the post in July 2008. Pierson, 60, has been in leadership positions with the MHA and its affiliate organizations for the past 16...
Miami-Dade County’s public health system tried to resolve eight years of dusty accounts receivable, but the problem won’t go away. A company that says it bought a $1.9 billion-portfolio of debt has filed a federal lawsuit claiming the system didn’t...
This past June, at the height of the Food and Drug Administration’s recalls on products imported from China, University Health Care System in Augusta, Ga., received a sobering letter from one of its suppliers. It warned that some of the oral-care...
Oncology, more than most areas of medicine, relies on the trial-and-error method of experimentation to develop treatments. There isn’t one regimen, procedure or drug that will solve the host of problems that cancer creates. In a similar way, the...
I believe our healthcare system and its challenges need to be addressed in a new way that empowers our strongest asset in controlling the spiraling cost of healthcare: the U.S. consumer.
You did not show good judgment in publishing Gregg Blesch’s cover story on caregivers’ actions being treated unfairly as criminal (“Charges of a different kind,” Oct. 1, p. 6). Of all the cases discussed in the article, two of them are very clearly...
Apologizing used to happen more frequently than it does today, and it used to have more meaning. People like it when others say they are sorry for things they have done when the apologies have the ring of credibility. You have to convey true...
Vanderbilt University Medical Center hired Luke Gregory for the multiple roles of assistant vice chancellor for health affairs, senior vice president, and chief business development officer. In these roles, Gregory, 51, will perform duties...
If it seems like the government always wants more—this won’t help. Now the CMS demands providers give them nine digits instead of five for their ZIP codes. For services rendered since Oct. 1, Medicare has been returning claims as “unprocessable” in...
