With 47 million uninsured nationwide and millions more facing rising premiums for less coverage, the crisis facing the U.S. healthcare system has never been more urgent.
Advocacy could be added to the curricula of professional public health programs nationwide, as a leading organization considers helping schools develop coursework around the issue.
State hospital association chiefs rank among healthcare’s highest-paid association executives, according to Modern Healthcare’s seventh annual survey of compensation for association leaders.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid moved to fast-track a bill that would place a hold on a series of controversial Medicaid regulations. The Nevada Democrat invoked a Senate rule that would allow the bill to bypass the Senate Finance Committee and...
With 47 million uninsured nationwide and millions more facing rising premiums for less coverage, the crisis facing the U.S. healthcare system has never been more urgent.
Advocacy could be added to the curricula of professional public health programs nationwide, as a leading organization considers helping schools develop coursework around the issue.
Time and options are running low for proponents of an effort to pass legislation restricting physician ownership of hospitals. The removal of such a provision from a farm bill last week is the latest signal that Congress is weighing its options...
While physicians are lobbying hard on Capitol Hill to maintain the right to own hospitals, a long-established group of cardiologists in Oklahoma has decided to step back from managing the business side of healthcare.
As it has risen to prominence over the past two years, Prime Healthcare Services has proven itself novel to say the least. The Victorville, Calif., company recently launched a rarely used acquisition strategy that could net it a hospital in the Los...
The debt-restructuring frenzy un-leashed by the failure of auctions for tax-exempt variable-rate debt issued by not-for-profit hospitals has not abated, prompting a rash of rating actions by the three major credit-rating agencies.
An unusual acquisition deal involving a leading healthcare information technology company and two payers has some wondering whether the proposed alliance could give other health plans a disadvantage as they seek to adopt new IT strategies.
The retirement of Roger Schenke, who founded the organization now known as the American College of Physician Executives and then led it for more than 30 years, is not expected to hurt the organization’s mission of providing physician-executives with...
The new $254.6 million Mayo Clinic Hospital, which opened April 12 in Jacksonville, Fla., is designed to provide the best care under literally the worst-possible conditions. With Florida’s hurricane history in mind, the 214-bed facility located four...
Phoenix Children’s Hospital is embarking on an ambitious expansion plan facilitated by land acquisitions that will almost double the size of its campus to 34 acres from 19 and add 478,000 square feet of clinical inpatient space.
State hospital association chiefs rank among healthcare’s highest-paid association executives, according to Modern Healthcare’s seventh annual survey of compensation for association leaders.
Let’s just skip ahead a few years and start calling it “pay-for-perfection” instead of “pay-for-performance.” That’s the direction the healthcare industry is heading, and we’re not so sure that’s a good thing. We’re not saying hospitals and doctors...
Leave it to a long drive across mid-America to give you a reality check on the obstacles facing health reform in this country. Somewhere along the 1,200 miles, I heard a talk radio host pose the question: How can anyone consider “social justice” a...
My suggestion for using the tax code to help the uninsured is simple (“Check the right box,” April 14, p. 6): All medical expenses as currently defined by the Internal Revenue Service—including the cost of private insurance—would be a deductible...
As manufacturing jobs continue to flee our shores, healthcare has become an economic lifeboat for many communities. We have long known that in many smaller cities and towns, the local hospital has been the largest employer. Now it seems it is the...
Steve Warden and Margaret Au Brown were named president and co-heads of commercial finance company CIT Healthcare, effective immediately, replacing Flint Besecker, who is leaving the company at the end of this month for personal...
Two-hundred and thirty-four years ago, New Englanders protesting taxes on British tea turned Boston Harbor into a big cup of brew. Now, New Englanders a couple of states over are being urged to dump brew of a different sort into Maine’s Kennebec...
