A tentative agreement between President Bush and House leaders to create a broad economic stimulus package does not include a temporary boost to the federal share of Medicaid spending as originally discussed. But Senate leaders may tackle Medicaid...
The Institute of Medicine’s report calling for a national initiative to determine best medical practices is garnering praise from some sectors but also raising questions about whether such a program could operate outside political influence and...
The Leapfrog Group’s new chief executive officer takes over just as the Institute of Medicine is issuing a call for greater clinical effectiveness, and as Leapfrog also makes changes to ensure its own effectiveness.
New Jersey hospitals’ unique financial problems are a lot bigger than New Jersey, according to a yearlong study released last week that amounted to a scathing indictment of the nation’s schizophrenic healthcare system.
Ohio’s attorney general is the latest state official to dig into the ways not-for-profit hospitals earn and spend their money, just as the Internal Revenue Service phases in its supercharged Form 990 that mines much of the same contentious...
In an attempt to rein in year-over-year cost increases, Massachusetts’ largest insurer is proposing to change the way it reimburses hospitals and physicians for patient care. The question is whether providers—who have long clamored for a payment...
A proposed CMS rule could offer some reimbursement relief to long-term acute-care hospital providers, but the segment still sees patient-certification criteria as a serious policy problem left unsolved.
Total compensation for chief medical officers rose significantly for managed-care organizations in 2006, but CMOs at medical groups, hospitals and integrated health systems achieved only modest salary gains, according to a new compensation survey.
When David Stark started his first job in top management—interim chief executive officer of a rural hospital in Iowa—he thought he could hear some silent snickering, even though everyone was the soul of courtesy. But he understood—after all, he was...
It’s rare that the American College of Healthcare Executives awards two gold medals in one year, and if the second is awarded it goes to someone who has made major contributions to healthcare administration without being primarily a healthcare...
Mark Howard has worked in just about every kind of hospital there is: military hospitals in Vietnam and Thailand, a teaching hospital in California, a succession of not-for-profit hospitals during a 21-year career with Intermountain Healthcare, and,...
Francis Cronin Jr., a former American College of Healthcare Executives chairman, will receive the ACHE Lifetime Achievement Award, given to executives who have made substantial contributions to the organization during their careers.
The picture being painted by healthcare’s interest groups is of an industry building a new culture of patient safety, brick by brick. The brushwork is from a palette brimming with quality improvement campaigns, organizations and conferences. We...
On Jan. 10, HHS’ inspector general’s office issued a report regarding the emergency-care policies at physician-owned specialty hospitals (“Dueling interpretations,” Jan. 14, p. 8). This report was requested in 2006 by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)...
Not enough people in this industry seem to care enough about the patient experience in their institutions. Spending on the simple things that can make being in the hospital just a little bit friendlier and less unsettling is seen as superfluous at a...
Keith Parrott will take over as head of Princeton Baptist Medical Center from interim president Betsy Postlethwait on Feb. 11, Baptist Health System announced. Parrott, 39, was named to the position following a three-month search conducted by the...
