While eyes around the planet last week were focused on the London Olympics, U.S. politicians were providing truly world-class entertainment on healthcare.
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WellStar Health System envisions a healthcare mall, of sorts, where mom can get a mammogram, dad can refill his cholesterol medication and junior can get his sports physical, all in the same place.
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Dignity Health, San Francisco, and Vanguard Health Systems, Nashville, said they will seek to form a Medicare accountable care organization in Arizona. The not-for-profit California system, which owns three Arizona hospitals, and for-profit Vanguard, which owns five Arizona hospitals operating as...
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An ambulatory surgery center in Illinois filed an antitrust lawsuit against the state's largest insurer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, and the dominant health system in two southern counties, alleging an illegal business arrangement to establish a monopoly that increases consumers' prices...
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Senior senators from both parties want stepped up enforcement and new laws after some Medicaid providers were found to owe large amounts of unpaid federal taxes. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, recommended both steps after a recent Government...
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Accretive Health settled the lawsuit that cost the billing and collection company clients and market capitalization, but the settlement has not ended the questions that the allegations raised about how hospitals and their contractors get patients to pay their bills.
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August ushered in more benefits to consumers from provisions in the healthcare reform law, including a controversial requirement for contraception coverage targeted by several lawsuits.
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A seemingly small move by the National Institutes of Health—creating an Office of Emergency Care Research—could have a big effect on the quality of care throughout a hospital and also within a physician's office.
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One of two key federal data-privacy laws protecting individuals from loss or misuse of their personal information in government databases is now 38 years old and has been rendered partially obsolete by changes in information-collection and storage, a Government Accountability Office security expert...
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The launch of public health insurance exchanges in the states next year could presage an even broader movement to private insurance marketplaces.
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WellStar Health System envisions a healthcare mall, of sorts, where mom can get a mammogram, dad can refill his cholesterol medication and junior can get his sports physical, all in the same place.
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Middle Tennessee, the national hub of the for-profit hospital industry, is attracting more whistle-blowers as the U.S. attorney in Nashville has made healthcare fraud a focus.
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FARGO, N.D.—Sanford Health broke ground last week on its $541 million Sanford Fargo Medical Center. The 1.2-million-square-foot, 460-bed facility is considered one of the largest healthcare construction projects that will start this year, and Sanford used the occasion to hold a...
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SPOKANE, Wash.—Two not-for-profit healthcare organizations are forming a new company with more than 300 physicians—but they're stressing that this is not a merger or acquisition deal. The Group Health Cooperative and Providence Health Care are forming a new limited-liability...
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WOONSOCKET, R.I.—Rhode Island's attorney general granted Steward Health Care System more time to close its deal to acquire Landmark Medical Center in Woonsocket. Boston-based Steward had requested that Attorney General Peter Kilmartin waive a 60-day deadline he set when approving the...
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While eyes around the planet last week were focused on the London Olympics, U.S. politicians were providing truly world-class entertainment on healthcare.
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“It's the slow season, a drowsy summer between the primaries and formal nomination in a month. Why not take a quick trip overseas, stocked with photo-ops and foreign flags? Mitt Romney is showing why not in a series of road trip gaffes. … The GOP contender dug himself in deeper by...
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Research published July 2 by our organization, Extending the Cure, shows a troubling, seasonal rise in antibiotic resistance—one that adds urgency to hospital efforts to combat the problem of resistance and resistant infections that can spread...
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Re: “Mass. patients face cost barriers to care after reform: study,” ModernHealthcare.com, July 27: The article reporting the study of access to care...
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A list of the nation's 20 largest healthcare foundations awarding health grants, ranked by total amount awarded in 2010. Source: The Foundation Center. Published Aug. 6, 2012, p. 32.
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Arthur Gonzalez, CEO of Hennepin Healthcare System, Minneapolis, will be the new CEO of the Denver Health and Hospital Authority, effective Sept. 4. He replaces the retiring Dr. Patricia Gabow, who has been CEO of the Colorado safety net provider since 1992. Gonzalez—who will be...
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When Dr. Theri Griego Raby was growing up in Albuquerque, her mother and grandmother taught her that good health is often connected to things like nutrition and sleep, and that sometimes the best cures are found in nature.
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Modern Physician and sister publication Modern Healthcare would like to congratulate Dr. Theri Griego Raby as the recipient of its fifth annual Physician Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
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Outliers was, to borrow a Britishism, gobsmacked to find that a showpiece segment of the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games celebrated … healthcare. Dancing nurses and doctors, children bouncing on beds. All in tribute to the National Health Service. During the segment, the...
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And while we're talking about the Olympics, could hospitals' bans on accepting and giving gifts be responsible for lackluster sales of corporate hospitality suites for the London games?
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