Most administrators at investor-owned hospitals would say they can't imagine a time when their facilities will outnumber their not-for-profit counterparts, but the gap has been steadily shrinking.
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Watching the troubles of Roman Catholic healthcare today, you have to wonder if Catholic hospitals might be on a belief-induced path to extinction.
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The start of the CMS' value-based purchasing program is approaching fast, and anxious hospitals got a welcome glimpse of whether they'll get paid more or less.
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National Quality Forum President and CEO Janet Corrigan will resign her post in June, after holding the Washington-based organization's top spot since 2006.
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Illinois Gov. Patrick Quinn has asked the Illinois Department of Revenue to continue its review of applications submitted by not-for-profit hospitals seeking property-tax exemptions.
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Legislation to create a conscience exemption to a federal mandate for health plans to cover preventive services was narrowly defeated, but supporters promised to continue pursuing it.
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Mayo Clinic Jacksonville (Fla.) will establish its first presence in Georgia with a deal to acquire Satilla Regional Medical Center, Waycross.
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A story about medical-home performance (Feb. 20) misspelled the name of Debbie Peikes, a senior health researcher at Mathematica Policy Research.
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The start of the CMS' value-based purchasing program is approaching fast, and anxious hospitals got a welcome glimpse of whether they'll get paid more or less.
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HHS officials are mulling whether to extend federal certification of electronic health records to long-term-care settings, as well as requiring public price lists for EHRs.
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As a growing number of states mold health insurance exchanges under the federal healthcare law, hospitals and other providers are pushing designs that would minimize unintended consequences.
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A judge's ruling that Cardinal Health is responsible for self-policing drug diversion activities may have a broader impact on the extent to which a wholesale drug distributor is responsible for detecting suspected diversion.
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The Federal Trade Commission has gone 0-for-2 in judicial decisions about its challenge of the nearly $200 million acquisition of Palmyra Medical Center in Albany, Ga., but that track record isn't stopping the agency from trying to bring the case before the highest court in the land.
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After fading into the background, the debate over the Independent Payment Advisory Board resurfaced last week as a House subcommittee voted to repeal the panel that the White House has yet to appoint.
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Hospital CEOs left their jobs at the same rate as the year before with a turnover rate of 16%, but the president of the American College of Healthcare Executives isn't calling that good news.
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Modern Healthcare is moving its Chicago headquarters to a new office in the city. Effective March 12, Modern Healthcare's new address will be 150 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill. 60601.
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New and uncommon alliances in the latest wave of healthcare dealmaking have brought increased competition and friction among providers and payers.
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Modern Healthcare is pleased to announce the hiring of a new reporter and a new sales account executive and the opening of a new bureau in the Nashville area, one of the major hubs of the country's healthcare industry.
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Representatives of the home health industry say they are satisfied with the quality of the post-acute segment’s clinical data submissions, disputing a critical report from HHS’ inspector general’s office.
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Borrowing by hospitals directly from banks got a boost after the credit crisis but ballooned last year as hospitals look to reduce exposure to potentially volatile debt.
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Most administrators at investor-owned hospitals would say they can't imagine a time when their facilities will outnumber their not-for-profit counterparts, but the gap has been steadily shrinking.
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HARRISBURG, Ill.—Inpatients at 74-bed Harrisburg Medical Center were transferred to nearby hospitals after a tornado that struck the Southern Illinois town damaged the hospital's building, said Melaney Arnold, a spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Public Health who was speaking...
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DALLAS—Physician Dr. Jacques Roy was charged in what federal authorities describe as a $374 million conspiracy to defraud Medicare and Medicaid through a vast patient-recruiting and false-billing effort for home-healthcare services.
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NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.—Greater Newport Physicians, a 400-doctor, multispecialty independent practice association, announced that it has affiliated with MemorialCare Health System’s MemorialCare Medical Foundation medical management organization, effective March 1.
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NORTHAMPTON, Mass.—Cooley Dickinson Hospital, a 142-bed hospital, took the first step toward a merger with Massachusetts General Hospital. After a three-year process involving seven potential partners, the Cooley Dickinson board of trustees voted to move forward with an agreement with...
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Watching the troubles of Roman Catholic healthcare today, you have to wonder if Catholic hospitals might be on a belief-induced path to extinction.
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“A wave of mergers between Roman Catholic and secular hospitals is threatening to deprive women in many areas of the country of ready access to important reproductive services.
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It is clear that access to objective medical information about a patient is critical to physician and provider decisionmaking at the point of care.
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A list of the nation's 20 largest for-profit hospital chains, ranked by 2011 operating revenue from most recent CMS Medicare hospital cost report. Source: Thomson Reuters. Published March 5, 2012, p. 34.
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Press Ganey Associates tapped Patrick Ryan, former leader of the Broadlane Group, as CEO. Ryan, 53, was chairman and CEO of the Broadlane Group when it was acquired in 2010 by MedAssets, Alpharetta, Ga.
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If bird and swine influenza strains haven't been enough to give public health officials agita when trying to persuade Americans to get flu vaccine shots, now they also have to contend with the potential of human-acquired bat flu.
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While Outliers has never felt the need to get one, tattoos have long served as fashion statements. But now, some Americans rely on them for a more practical, potentially lifesaving purpose: to warn first responders about important medical conditions.
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It's apparently not enough that Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong owns a small share of the Los Angeles Lakers, that he's a co-inventor of the breast cancer drug Abraxane, and that he started his own digital technology company last year.
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