A new controversy may trigger familiar memories for some readers. This one centers on the activities of Accretive Health, a Chicago-based healthcare billing and collection company.
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An initiative to jump-start care coordination among Medicaid's costliest population may rely on an integrated-care program already operational in many states. But that worries some policy experts.
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The CMS again extended the implementation of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act and will not require drug and device manufacturers to begin collecting data on payments to providers until 2013.
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A National Institutes of Health initiative will pair researchers with about two dozen pharmaceutical industry compounds from three drug companies to help scientists investigate new disease treatments. The NIH's National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences—which was established last...
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A survey from the Association of American Medical Colleges predicts that by 2016, first-year enrollment in U.S. medical schools will nearly match the 30% increase in enrollment that the association called for in 2006 to address a looming physician shortage. AAMC President and CEO Dr. Darrell Kirch...
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Highmark, a Pittsburgh insurer seeking to acquire a distressed health system, announced the launch of ProtoCo Supply Chain Partners, a group-purchasing and supply-chain services organization. ProtoCo will aim to squeeze $100 million over five years from West Penn Allegheny's supply expenses, which...
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Accretive Health faces a congressional inquiry as executives moved to defend the company's business practices following a highly critical report from Minnesota's attorney general.
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A sweep of 107 arrests for Medicare fraud scams in seven cities marked the fourth time the Obama administration had corralled an array of unrelated healthcare cases for a national announcement.
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The healthcare group purchasing industry says the newest government report on the business is evidence that self-policing and federal oversight across several agencies is working.
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Experts generally agree that a staggering amount of money—between $20 billion and $100 billion—in federal spending on healthcare programs is lost to waste, fraud and abuse each year despite an ongoing crackdown by the government and its private contractors.
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Publicly traded hospital groups marked a first quarter that continued to see shrinking volumes and reduced reimbursement, but was boosted by outpatient growth and payments from the CMS.
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Editor's note: Daniel Levinson, HHS' inspector general, sat down with Modern Healthcare reporter Joe Carlson for an exclusive interview last week after Levinson addressed thousands of compliance officers at the Health Care Compliance Association's annual Compliance Institute in Las Vegas. The...
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The American Hospital Association's insistence on a 30-day window to provide patients with their medical data catalyzed Internet critics with patient advocates saying the group was out of touch with patient needs.
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The Vatican's surprising reprimand of a Maryland-based nuns group could signal pressure on Catholic healthcare providers who similarly have broken with the church leadership over healthcare reform.
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Modern Healthcare is pleased to announce that it has been honored with seven prestigious journalism awards from the American Society of Healthcare Publication Editors.
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Modern Healthcare is conducting a opinion survey on supply chain issues. This survey is available to senior-level healthcare executives to analyze their opinions on supply chain issues that affect their business decisions and relationships with group purchasing organizations. Submissions are kept...
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Health systems are looking to slash millions of dollars from their operations to prepare for upcoming Medicare cuts and other expected revenue reductions.
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An initiative to jump-start care coordination among Medicaid's costliest population may rely on an integrated-care program already operational in many states. But that worries some policy experts.
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—On May 1, the Johns Hopkins Hospital opened the Charlotte Bloomberg Children's Center and Sheikh Zayed Tower, a 1.6-million-square-foot facility that cost about $1.1 billion. Named for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's late mother, the Charlotte Bloomberg Children's Center...
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PITTSBURGH—Western Pennsylvania Hospital reopened its renovated 18-bed intensive-care unit as part of efforts to turn around West Penn Allegheny Health System. The system renovated and reopened the unit after executives reversed plans to downsize the hospital. The hospital's emergency...
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CHICAGO—Children's Memorial Hospital will give the public sneak peaks of its new $915 million, 23-floor replacement hospital this month. The Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago is set to open June 9, built in part thanks to a $100 million donation from the facility's...
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AUBURN, Wash.—Universal Health Services reached a definitive agreement to sell 120-bed Auburn Regional Medical Center to the MultiCare Health System. The deal, which would result in proceeds of about $98 million, is expected to close by September pending regulatory approval, Universal...
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A new controversy may trigger familiar memories for some readers. This one centers on the activities of Accretive Health, a Chicago-based healthcare billing and collection company.
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“A six-volume report released this week by Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson suggests that patients at a large non-profit Minnesota hospital system have been badgered, harassed, deceived and intimidated about paying medical bills both before and after receiving needed care, sometimes...
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Six years after Massachusetts' historic healthcare reform legislation, the state provides a window into healthcare reform for the rest of the states, even as the exact shape reform will take is under debate. Long a mecca of medicine, we are accustomed to attention of this sort, and our healthcare...
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In his commentary on “Paving a path to the C-Suite,” (April 23, p. 25), Stephen Loebs cited two competing perspectives on graduate education for future healthcare leaders. I personally (and frankly,...
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A list of the nation's Medicaid expenditures, each state ranked by fiscal 2010 expenditures. Source: National Association of State Budget Officers. Published May 7, 2012, p. 34.
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Dr. John Armstrong was appointed Florida's surgeon general and secretary of the state's health department. He starts May 23. Armstrong is an associate professor of surgery at Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida in Tampa and chief medical officer for the USF Health...
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Outliers appreciates a good whale story, hopefully told over a cocktail, and the soon-to-be opened Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago offers one.
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Here at Outliers, our favorite moments from the gone-but-not-forgotten TV series “The West Wing” were always the show's famed “walk-and-talk” scenes. Whenever a horde of cast members would intently yet aimlessly circle the White House trading witty barbs, we assumed...
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A new app for the Android and iPhone developed by English dentist Ben Underwood may make dancing while brushing an inter-continental phenomenon, and hopefully, it will improve everyone's oral health along the way.
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