Healthcare experts and executives surveyed by the Commonwealth Fund and Modern Healthcare overwhelmingly support expanding the popular State Children’s Health Insurance Program, a stand in stark contrast to the Bush administration’s strong...
In a civil society, who should be responsible for the health of a nation’s uninsured population: physicians, hospitals, employers, policymakers or taxpaying citizens? According to the Health Alliance for the Uninsured in Oklahoma City, the answer is...
Every American should have access to basic health insurance at an affordable price, especially children. To that end, the Bush administration has supported efforts to extend health insurance to children through the State Children’s Health Insurance...
As governor of New York, one of my highest priorities is ensuring that every child has health insurance. Access to quality healthcare is critical for children to grow up healthy and be able to learn. My plan to cover the 400,000 uninsured children...
HealthSouth Corp., Birmingham, Ala., announced two deals last week that continued its overhaul from a broad provider of post-acute services to one focused on rehabilitation hospitals.
Tenet Healthcare Corp., Dallas, said it is selling two Philadelphia-area hospitals to a newly formed company whose leadership includes the longtime administrator of one of the facilities.
Rep. Charles Gonzalez (D-Texas), chairman of the House Small Business Committee’s Regulations, Healthcare and Trade subcommittee, and Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.), introduced legislation that would dole out grants, loans and tax incentives to small...
In a civil society, who should be responsible for the health of a nation’s uninsured population: physicians, hospitals, employers, policymakers or taxpaying citizens? According to the Health Alliance for the Uninsured in Oklahoma City, the answer is...
For the first time in the five-year history of Cover the Uninsured Week, event sponsor Robert Wood Johnson Foundation may have more than just words, statistics and optimism at the launch. This year, it has a legislative vehicle that can carry its...
Hospital groups claim acute-care hospitals will lose billions of dollars under the CMS’ proposal to introduce an expanded system for evaluating patient severity.
Many physician-owned specialty hospitals say they’re ready to comply with new ownership disclosure requirements under the CMS’ proposed inpatient rule for fiscal 2008, though the hospital industry lobby says the rules don’t go far enough.
The CMS’ proposed inpatient prospective payment system rule would add four new surgical process measures and one outcomes measure to bring to 32 the number of quality measures hospitals must publicly report beginning next fall to avoid being docked...
Don’t expect big changes at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, where Robert Kolodner was named by HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt to head the office after serving on an interim basis since last September.
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority handed anti-abortion forces a major victory in a decision that bans a controversial abortion procedure and sets the stage for further restrictions. For the first time since the court established a woman’s...
The American Hospital Association last week asked federal rulemakers to better define antitrust laws in advance of an associationwide push to more closely partner hospitals with independent physician groups.
Senate Republicans last week used one of the few tools the minority party has at its disposal to scuttle a bill that would have lifted the ban preventing Medicare from negotiating directly with drugmakers.
The largest two-year boom in nurse hiring in 20 years gave way to a bust in 2004 and 2005 as the U.S. economy rebounded and registered nurse inflation-adjusted wages dipped, new research shows.
Is the progeny of the Allegheny Health, Education and Research Foundation completely rehabilitated from the sins of the biggest and most notorious bankruptcy in hospital history?
Quest Diagnostics has once again narrowed the field of independent laboratories with its announcement last week that it would buy AmeriPath, a company specializing in cancer diagnosis, for $2 billion, raising concerns among hospitals offering...
A few years back, administrators at Yale-New Haven Hospital decided to purchase a new, big-ticket product for the radiology department. Called a computer-aided detection system, or CAD, the device promised a much deeper read and the earliest...
In this fifth annual Cover the Uninsured Week, it is notable that organizers of the event are focusing on the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, including a $3 million TV ad campaign to point out the successes of the program and the need to...
Healthcare experts and executives surveyed by the Commonwealth Fund and Modern Healthcare overwhelmingly support expanding the popular State Children’s Health Insurance Program, a stand in stark contrast to the Bush administration’s strong...
Every American should have access to basic health insurance at an affordable price, especially children. To that end, the Bush administration has supported efforts to extend health insurance to children through the State Children’s Health Insurance...
As governor of New York, one of my highest priorities is ensuring that every child has health insurance. Access to quality healthcare is critical for children to grow up healthy and be able to learn. My plan to cover the 400,000 uninsured children...
We read with great interest about the pending transaction between Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (“FTC wants more details on UPMC deal,” Daily Dose, March 28).
How many times have we heard someone say, “But I am only one person. I can’t do anything about it!” But one person can make a difference. Martin Luther King Jr. did and so did Mother Teresa and many, many others. These are individuals who dared to...
The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, named David Callender, a head and neck surgeon, as its new president. Callender, 49, is currently associate vice chancellor and CEO of the University of California at Los Angeles Hospital...
Concerned that Michael Moore’s upcoming movie “Sicko” will promote socialized medicine while handcuffing pharmaceutical industry innovation, California activist Logan Darrow Clements is soliciting stories of rationing of care and long waits in...
