Steve Case—co-founder of America Online and founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Revolution Health Group—was ranked No. 1 in Modern Healthcare's seventh annual listing of the Most Powerful People in Healthcare. See the others FULL STORYPUBLISHED: August 25, 2008 ACCESS: REG
The sluggish economy has taken its toll on the construction industry, but healthcare is doing its part to keep the concrete flowing and the pneumatic hammers hammering.
Uncompensated care, or expenses not paid out-of-pocket, for the nearly 77 million Americans without insurance during all or part of this year could total up to $57 billion, according to an analysis expected to be published online Aug. 25 by the...
Expanding coverage to the nation’s uninsured won’t guarantee access to care, suggest results of a new survey that found health benefits increasingly fail to protect U.S. households against financial stress.
A blue-and-white blimp flying the logo of Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey sums up what’s wrong with the insurer’s plan to convert to for-profit status from the view of the Medical Society of New Jersey’s top executive.
Three times, Memorial Health Services has had an agreement to sell Anaheim (Calif.) Memorial Medical Center, and three times, those deals have foundered. In the wake of the third agreement’s failure, Memorial is still weighing its options, a system...
Last week, the Internal Revenue Service ended more than 14 months of drafting and revising a key disclosure form, the 990, for not-for-profit hospitals and other tax-exempt organizations to report on revenue, expense and operations.
The proposed switch to ICD-10 code sets from ICD-9 represents a huge information technology challenge for the U.S. healthcare system at an estimated cost in the billions of dollars, according to a formal notice of proposed rulemaking issued by...
The CMS has soothed the nerves of providers and their lawyers with its latest round of revisions to the Stark restrictions on physician self-referral, this time delivered via the 2009 inpatient prospective payment system rule, though many remain...
Behind a recently introduced bill to temporarily boost Medicare payments for medium-small hospitals is the claim that such hospitals treat fewer patients at higher cost, but for less—if any—profit from the federal insurer.
It’s not uncommon for doctors to lament the flaws of a particular medical device or technology that doesn’t completely meet their needs. For medical students at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, there is now an...
Community Health Systems, Franklin, Tenn., took a step toward completing an acquisition in Washington state last week, and a new deal in Pennsylvania came up over the horizon as well. The proposed acquisition in Pennsylvania would be its first new...
The Federation of American Hospitals posted a 4.9% increase in net income for 2007 compared with 2006, thanks to a healthy 6.5% increase in membership dues and assessments, according to its annual tax filing.
Investments—a headache and a drag on finances for many this year—helped to sharply boost the American Hospital Association’s income in 2007. The trade group finished last year with a profit of $16.5 million on revenue of
The sluggish economy has taken its toll on the construction industry, but healthcare is doing its part to keep the concrete flowing and the pneumatic hammers hammering.
DALLAS—The University of Texas Southwestern School of Allied Health Sciences changed its name to the UT Southwestern School of Health Professions, effective Sept. 1. The new name is meant to encompass the school’s mission of educating health...
PHILADELPHIA—In July, Good Shepherd Penn Partners, a joint venture between Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network of Allentown, Pa., and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, opened Penn Medicine at Rittenhouse, a post-acute-care...
HONOKA’A, Hawaii—Hale Ho’ola Hamakua broke ground on a $9.1 million expansion project to meet a growing need for long-term-care beds in the rural eastern part of Hawaii’s Big Island. The project, to be completed in December 2009, will nearly...
INDIANAPOLIS—The Indiana Health Information Exchange last month announced it added three more hospitals to its network. Michigan City-based 168-bed St. Anthony Memorial and 250-bed Crown Point-based St. Anthony Medical Center serve patients...
A federal judge ruled against a Michigan critical-access hospital complaining that the state’s limits on the use of swing beds contradict Medicare rules that restrict involuntary transfers of nursing-home patients.
I have been combing through a pile of old editorials and commentaries from the past seven years of this magazine. This is not because I am having trouble sleeping, nor am I losing my marbles, though others may beg to differ. What has occasioned this...
Modern Healthcare is highly regarded for its track record of objective, thorough reporting, but Todd Sloane’s editorial turned those practices on their head (“Preventive listening,” Aug. 11, p. 23).
During the past several years, specialty hospitals have been getting a lot of attention in the media, not much of it positive. The staunchest critics point to potential conflicts of interest involving physician ownership and the complaints...
Michael Langlois was named senior vice president at Daudlin, deBeaupre and Co., Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., in what is a new position. Langlois, 51, previously was senior vice president and chief supply-chain officer for Ascension Health, St. Louis.
William Roper won’t have to write a “What I Did on My Summer Vacation” essay this year. The chief executive officer of UNC Health Care System and dean of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine can just point to his blog,...
