Excela Health entered the Great Recession as the largest mental health provider for the Pennsylvania county that's home to its three hospitals.
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At least 11 states are adding initiatives resembling ACOs to their Medicaid programs. And many providers who shied away from the Medicare ACO models are interested in the state versions.
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The starting gun has sounded. The first votes have been cast and counted in the 2012 race for the White House. We now have an official Republican front-runner.
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The nation's healthcare system faces another major policy fork in 2012 as a U.S. Supreme Court case and a national election will decide the fate of the 2010 federal healthcare overhaul.
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The CMS issued a proposed rule that would redefine which hospital patients are uninsured for the purpose of calculating Medicaid disproportionate-share payments.
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HHS concluded that Trustmark Life Insurance Co. proposed unreasonable health insurance premium increases in Alabama, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wyoming that would affect a total of 10,000 residents.
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Republican lawmakers chided HHS for a lack of transparency in the department’s December bulletin about essential health benefits under the healthcare reform law.
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The Food and Drug Administration sent Congress recommendations for two new user-fee programs for drugmakers that would help pay for quicker reviews of applications for generic and biosimilar drugs.
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California Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed budget for 2012-13 would reduce Medicaid revenue for hospitals in the state by $86 million and could cause problems for rural health clinics, seniors and people with disabilities, according to a media statement from C. Duane Dauner, president and CEO of the...
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With oral arguments approaching March 26, the U.S. Justice Department gave the U.S. Supreme Court a formal defense of the healthcare reform law's requirement that Americans purchase insurance or face a tax penalty.
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Hospital groups negotiated roughly $155 billion in cuts to scheduled Medicare increases through 2019 as part of the run-up to passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The Jan. 2 Finance feature (p. 30) gave an incorrect...
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Excela Health entered the Great Recession as the largest mental health provider for the Pennsylvania county that's home to its three hospitals.
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At least 11 states are adding initiatives resembling ACOs to their Medicaid programs. And many providers who shied away from the Medicare ACO models are interested in the state versions.
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Patient-safety experts say they're not surprised or even particularly alarmed by a seemingly troubling finding that hospitals' voluntary reporting systems capture few adverse events.
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Some federal performance measures are ready for prime time, but most need more work or should be eliminated altogether, according to an expert group convened by the National Quality Forum to provide feedback to HHS.
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Medicare's advisory panel recommended a pay hike for most hospital services in 2013, but a separate spending suggestion received much more attention.
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Government officials and industry best practices have long been pushing hospitals and health systems to establish internal compliance departments as a way to defray legal risks and police themselves.
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HHS' inspector general's office reported $4.6 billion in investigative receivables in 2011. A Jan. 9 story (“Fraud prosecutions up 69%”,) gave an incorrect figure.
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Health plans have two years to comply with new standards for electronic funds transfers, issued by HHS on Jan. 5. But according to a health insurance industry trade group, most plans are already on board with the requirements, which include uniform format and content requirements for electronic...
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The CMS has named 73 professionals who will participate in the agency's Innovation Advisors Program, a $6 million initiative to test new models of payment and healthcare delivery.
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Catholic Health Initiatives waited only a week after Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear rejected a proposed merger with the University of Louisville Hospital to form a new network combining the other two parties involved in the proposed three-way deal.
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Community hospitals collectively enjoyed a record-breaking margin in 2010 with more than $52.9 billion in total profits, according to the American Hospital Association.
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Government investigators say they are moving away from the old “pay-and-chase” model of healthcare fraud enforcement, but the new focus on preventing fraud before it happens is not cutting off the flow of new cases for prosecution.
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Ascension Health, the nation's largest private not-for-profit health system, has moved to enter new ancillary healthcare markets with a reorganization that went into effect with the new year.
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A longtime executive with SSM Health Care is the new president and CEO of its St. Louis operations, which includes seven of the St. Louis-based system's 13 hospitals.
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Although observers roundly praised federal officials for loosening the antitrust and abuse rules on accountable care organizations, the American Hospital Association is protesting what it says are efforts by regulators to move back toward stricter enforcement over time.
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Modern Healthcare is seeking nominations for its fourth biennial listing of the Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare. Modern Healthcare is seeking nominees from all sectors of the healthcare industry.
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The new Eagle Butte Health Center in South Dakota is set to open for business this week. The 10-bed, 138,000-square-foot Indian Health Service facility was paid for with $84.5 million from the stimulus law.
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The nation's healthcare system faces another major policy fork in 2012 as a U.S. Supreme Court case and a national election will decide the fate of the 2010 federal healthcare overhaul.
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HARTSELLE, Ala.—Hartselle Medical Center will close its doors Jan. 31, according to a statement from its parent company, Franklin, Tenn.-based Capella Healthcare.
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Two rejections in 10 days from Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear of the University of Louisville Hospital's plans to join a three-way merger prompted the hospital's leaders to issue a challenge for the governor:
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Even as Illinois hospitals wage a publicity and lobbying campaign to preserve their tax-exempt status, the value of their public programs and services declined in 2010 from the year before, a trade association report said.
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ROSWELL, N.M.—Community Health Systems, Franklin, Tenn., withdrew its interest in buying the hospital in Roswell that it doesn't already own after receiving word that the increasingly vigilant Federal Trade Commission planned an extensive review of the transaction.
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NEW YORK—Insurer Cigna Corp. announced an accountable care effort with the Weill Cornell Physician Organization, New York, that will employ registered nurses to coordinate patient care.
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SCRANTON, Pa.—Community Health Systems has completed its acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Moses Taylor Health Care System, a two-hospital system in northeast Pennsylvania.
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CLEVELAND—The Cleveland Clinic is putting the final touches on a $75 million building that officials say they hope will pump new blood into the system's revenue stream, Modern Healthcare sister publication Crain's Cleveland Business reported.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif.—The UC Davis Health System recently signed a telehealth research collaboration agreement with the Mexican state of Sinaloa.
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The starting gun has sounded. The first votes have been cast and counted in the 2012 race for the White House. We now have an official Republican front-runner.
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“Two things have struck me about the Republican presidential candidate debates leading up to the Iowa caucuses. One is how entertaining they were. The other is how disconnected they were from the biggest trends shaping the job market of the 21st century. What if the 2012 campaign were...
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Editor's note: The following is an edited excerpt of a full transcript of a Dec. 21, 2011 editorial webcast, “Safety First,” conducted by Modern Healthcare.
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Editor's note: The following is an edited excerpt of a full transcript of a Nov. 30, 2011 editorial webcast, “Staying compliant,” conducted by Modern Healthcare.
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The new year has just started, but inside the Beltway, all eyes are on the presidential and congressional elections that will take place in November—and the renewed fiscal policy debate that awaits us once the elections are over.
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Thomson Reuters' fourth annual study of health systems, part of its 100 Top Hospitals programs. Information sources include two public databases: Medicare Provider Analysis and Review, or MedPAR, and the CMS' Hospital Compare. Source: Thomson Reuters. Published Jan. 16, 2012, p. 30.
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Memorial Hospital, an HCA-owned facility in Jacksonville, Fla., named Jim O'Loughlin its new president and CEO, effective Feb. 13. O'Loughlin, 55, comes to Memorial from Carolinas Hospital System in Florence, S.C., where he was president and CEO of the hospital, owned by for-profit Community...
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The scenic views of Chicago's famous skyline available from the new 14-story tower that now houses Rush University Medical Center just weren't artsy enough for hospital officials.
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People search the Web for health information so it shouldn’t be a surprise that they are using social media to raise money for medical expenses.
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Publicity was inevitable when two of the biggest names in popular music, Jay-Z and Beyonce, entered Lenox Hill Hospital this month for their blessed event.
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When Outliers watches dancers gyrating in music videos for artists such as Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and Beyonce, one question never fails to pop into our mind: Do those performers have healthcare benefits?
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Even people who think caviar is to die for might lose their appetite when it's stored in a hospital morgue. But that's where police in St. Petersburg, Russia, found a huge stash of the delicacy recently—385 pounds stored in the refrigerated space where cadavers are kept.
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HHS' inspector general's office reported $4.6 billion in investigative receivables in 2011. A Jan. 9 story (“Fraud prosecutions up 69%”,) gave an incorrect figure.
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