Hospital patients delivered some disappointing news last week. Only 67% of patients said they would definitely recommend their hospital to friends and family, and 63% gave their hospitals an overall rating of 9 or 10 on a 10-point scale, according...
This special report on healthcare finance is based on a roundtable discussion with four prominent hospital and health system chief executive officers held March 10 at Modern Healthcare’s offices in Chicago. The discussion topics included...
Two Scranton, Pa., hospitals have walked away from affiliation plans in the works since June 2006 and backed by Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania, citing roadblocks from state Attorney General Tom Corbett. Blue Cross had pledged $50 million to...
Hospital patients delivered some disappointing news last week. Only 67% of patients said they would definitely recommend their hospital to friends and family, and 63% gave their hospitals an overall rating of 9 or 10 on a 10-point scale, according...
As hospitals prepare to deal with a public newly armed with more hospital quality data, the AFL-CIO plans to use new public opinion survey results to leverage its concerns on healthcare access and costs with the presidential candidates.
The National Alliance for Health Information Technology and its five remaining employees face an uncertain future following last week’s announcement that the group’s board of directors is reconsidering NAHIT’s continued relevancy in a much-changed...
The demographic bulge of citizens nearing retirement age should worry hospital governing boards that have not readied for a chief executive’s departure.
Hospital executives and practicing physicians said that the government’s annual “doom and gloom” Medicare trustees’ report released last week serves as proof of what they see every day: The federally funded program is on shaky legs.
With graduate medical education funding on the chopping block in proposals floating around Washington, the academic community is nervous about the casualties that may result if the proposed cuts are enacted.
As industry leaders reacted to a proposed rule on long-term acute-care hospitals, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission last week said the CMS should do what MedPAC first recommended in 2004: Define the type of care these facilities...
The Internal Revenue Service has given not-for-profit hospitals reason to believe that good intentions and effort count for something, even when the results run afoul of the requirements for tax-exempt organizations.
Sagging stock prices don’t reflect the underlying operations of two healthcare companies that reported public results for the first time after initial public offerings in recent months.
A federal jury in Columbus, Ohio, convicted Lance Poulsen, the former owner and chief executive officer of National Century Financial Enterprises, on all charges in a witness-tampering scheme related to his fraud trial scheduled for...
A federal rule allowing employers to offer different coverage to retirees who qualify for Medicare than for those who are under age 65 without running afoul of age-discrimination laws has some experts saying it will slow erosion of retiree health...
Even in turbulent times for real estate, Iasis Healthcare would rather own than rent in the Phoenix market—especially when it can leave an older property to concentrate on its brand-new hospital in Mesa, Ariz.
After two failed attempts to sell Anaheim (Calif.) Memorial Medical Center, Memorial Health Services thinks it has finally found a buyer that can scrawl a checkmark next to all the required boxes.
A provider-owned health plan in Hawaii is contesting the bidding process that awarded a $1.5 billion state Medicaid managed-care contract to two of the nation’s largest health insurers.
Few politicians in their battle to lay claim to a fix for the U.S. healthcare-coverage crisis have been willing to seriously consider the financial and regulatory tactics used by other countries to achieve universal healthcare.
This special report on healthcare finance is based on a roundtable discussion with four prominent hospital and health system chief executive officers held March 10 at Modern Healthcare’s offices in Chicago. The discussion topics included...
Smell that? That’s the smell of competition coming back to the Kansas City, Mo., healthcare market after the settlement of an antitrust lawsuit filed by a physician-owned specialty hospital against competing hospitals that allegedly conspired with...
I find regional differences in quality metrics and charge data fascinating (“Rising to the top,” March 17, p. 26). There must be lessons to be learned in the Dartmouth Atlas data and from Thomson’s hospital quality and safety report, which is based...
When Outliers heard that the famously bland Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning would be making a joint appearance with acting Surgeon General Steven Galson, our first thought was that this would be one of those rare occasions when a Washington...
