The Accretive Health saga took another turn last week as the billing and collection company said it would launch and fund a panel to set patient collection standards.
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On the morning of March 27, a group of 46 quality improvement professionals gathered in a brightly lit conference room on the ground floor of a large hotel near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
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The FCC is on the cusp of unleashing technology that could release patients from the constellations of machines that monitor them in the hospital and revolutionize the level of home monitoring.
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The Massachusetts Senate quickly passed legislation that would take dramatic steps to overhaul the way healthcare is paid for in the state and aggressively control the growth in how much it costs.
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Members of National Nurses United pushed for a tax of Wall Street profits before a crowd of thousands in downtown Chicago at a protest staged to coincide with the NATO summit. “This is a phenomenal demonstration of the frustration that's happening in society,” union President RoseAnn...
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In his first major public speech as head of the U.S. Justice Department's civil division, Stuart Delery told an audience of corporate attorneys in San Francisco that fighting healthcare fraud must include substantive penalties and remedies beyond attention-grabbing monetary settlements. Delery's...
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Kindred Healthcare, Louisville, Ky., appointed Benjamin Breier president in addition to his role as COO. Breier, 41, took over the president title from Paul Diaz, who will remain CEO. Breier, a Modern Healthcare Up & Comer in 2010,...
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The FCC is on the cusp of unleashing technology that could release patients from the constellations of machines that monitor them in the hospital and revolutionize the level of home monitoring.
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Healthcare providers last week criticized the reform law's additional reporting requirements for tax-exempt hospitals and sought clarity from the Internal Revenue Service, which has yet to release a regulation on those changes.
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The outlook for the establishment of state-run health insurance exchanges may be neither as rosy as their supporters claim nor as dark as their critics expect.
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The allegations facing billing and collection company Accretive Health were among the factors influencing Catholic Health Initiatives' decision to acquire a minority stake in Tenet Healthcare Corp.'s Conifer Health Solutions, executives said.
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The healthcare community serving Joplin, Mo., is working hard to rebuild capacity one year after a tornado destroyed one of its hospitals, as emergency preparedness experts try to use Joplin's experience to allow other hospitals to become better prepared.
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Thanks in part to increased activity in two large states, the number of disciplinary actions taken by state medical boards increased 6.8% in 2011, but the Public Citizen Health Research Group is not that impressed and notes that “serious” actions were not up by much.
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Publicly traded long-term and post-acute-care operators are seeing the stress of Medicare reimbursement cuts balanced by the benefits realized from acquisitions.
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It won't surprise many that poor health is linked to lower levels of income and education, but the magnitude of the disparities surprised the lead author of a federal report.
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The move toward accountable care contracts has exposed some providers to new levels of financial risk, prompting an emerging market of insurance and other vehicles to help hospitals and doctors mitigate that risk.
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Modern Healthcare is pleased to announce that it has been honored with the prestigious Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism from the Chicago Headline Club, which is the Chicago chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
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As healthcare construction costs continue to escalate, it's become generally accepted that typical general acute-care hospitals will cost about $1 million a bed—except in California.
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The new replacement naval hospital at Camp Pendleton near San Diego will cost $451 million and will have only 67 beds. But with almost 2,000 outpatient and 131 emergency department visits projected for the building each day, it's not meant to be a typical inpatient facility.
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On the morning of March 27, a group of 46 quality improvement professionals gathered in a brightly lit conference room on the ground floor of a large hotel near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
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The Accretive Health saga took another turn last week as the billing and collection company said it would launch and fund a panel to set patient collection standards.
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“Beware of scientists who moonlight as politicians. A case in point is the Institute of Medicine obesity report that endorses far more regulation of food, business, real estate, healthcare, transportation, the works. The Weight of the Nation is one of those prestige doorstops—at some...
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Re: "Most profitable critical-access hospitals," it should be noted that all of the Wisconsin hospitals listed are part of larger organizations. As such, the information on profitability reported in Medicare cost reports...
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A list of the nation's 20 largest pharmaceutical companies, ranked by U.S. retail sales (December 2011). Source: IMS Health. Published May 21, 2012, p. 34.
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Ochsner Health System, New Orleans, named Warner Thomas, currently the system's president and COO, CEO effective Sept. 1. He replaces Dr. Patrick Quinlan, who was selected to lead the new Ochsner Center for Community Wellness and Health Policy. Thomas, 46, was chosen as part of a...
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The summer concert season is quickly approaching, much to Outliers' delight, and the country's largest nurses union was busy last week promoting one of the first shows of the season.
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Outliers has rarely felt a draw to the electronic arts. However, if the Sonys and Microsofts of the world developed video games that helped spur us to meet that burdensome “exercise three times a week” requirement, we may reconsider.
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May is National Military Appreciation Month. Attendees of the MedAssets Healthcare Business Summit in Las Vegas recently assembled and shipped 1,800 individual care packages to U.S. troops overseas. Outliers wants to know what your healthcare organization is doing to support the members of...
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