The first three LSU hospital privatization deals appear to use up 94% of the funding Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration set aside for eight such arrangements, budget analysts told senators.
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Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in Whittier, Calif., is laying the groundwork for its next big advances in information technology.
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Just as growing diversity is shaking up the nation's politics, the increasingly multicultural populations served by U.S. healthcare providers are also driving changes in the organizations' C-suites and boardrooms. But the transformation is still a work in progress.
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Jan Brewer, one of the fiercest Obamacare critics among Republican governors, rallied support last week for raising Medicaid eligibility in order to draw federal funding under the healthcare law.
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URAC, a Washington-based healthcare measurement and accreditation organization, has named Kylanne Green president and CEO, effective July 22. Green succeeds Alan Spielman, who left his post Feb. 15 after serving as president and CEO since 2005. Green, a nurse practitioner, previously served as executive VP and CEO of managed-care services at Inova Health System, Falls Church, Va. She served in a number of roles, including as chief administrative officer, during her 10 years at the not-for-profit health system. She was also COO of Aetna's Mid-Atlantic region. During the 1990s,...
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Amid looming shortages in healthcare workers, one branch of the federal government is ramping up aggressive efforts to keep some of them far away from patients.HHS' Office of the Inspector General adds about 300 new names every month to its List of Excluded Individuals and Entities (LEIE) that are banned from working for Medicare and Medicaid. The growth of the healthcare blacklist is expected to accelerate in tandem with the widening crackdown on healthcare crooks, fraudsters and clinicians who don't repay government-backed student loans.
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WellPoint shareholders last week elected newly minted CEO Joseph Swedish to a three-year term on the company's board of directors. Three directors resigned in the days leading up to the May 15 annual meeting, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: Dr. Lenox Baker Jr., Susan Bayh and Sheila Burke. All cited personal reasons. Last year, the company was under pressure from activist shareholders who were dissatisfied with the company's financial performance, culminating in the August resignation of CEO Angela Braly. Swedish assumed leadership March 25. CtW...
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During a week otherwise consumed by partisan knife fights over White House scandals and yet another House vote to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 91 senators agreed that Marilyn Tavenner is equipped to run the CMS. Tavenner, 61, a former nurse and hospital executive for hospital chain HCA, has earned a reputation among lawmakers in both parties as a skilled and apolitical administrator, even though she is charged with implementing the politically divisive healthcare law. The Obama administration hired Tavenner as a deputy administrator in 2010, and she took over as...
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Congress' nonpartisan investigative arm reported that 91% of hospitals paid by Medicare receive some dispensation or add-on to the program's standard payment system.The Inpatient Prospective Payment System was designed to maximize “cost-control, efficiency and access” when it was launched 30 years ago, according to the Government Accountability Office report. But Congress has piled on an accumulating number of exemptions and carve-outs for various types of hospitals.
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