Many hospitals will continue to use compounding pharmacies for hard-to-obtain drugs because they have no alternative, even though a deadly meningitis outbreak traced to a compounding facility has raised grave concerns about safety and oversight.
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Hospitals are increasingly contacting patients with scheduled procedures about their medical bills—and when the patients will be able to pay them—before or during a hospital visit.
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I have always had a very high regard for healthcare in general. It stems from my father, who is a surgeon and a former professor of surgery.
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Medicare was one of the biggest flashpoints during the election's first and only vice presidential debate, with that portion of the testy encounter bringing frequent interruptions by both Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).
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A developer suspended plans for the Nashville Medical Trade Center. The space, billed as a “healthcare marketplace” and slated for downtown Nashville, was signing healthcare IT vendors as recently as May, but a statement from Market Center Management Co., the project's Dallas-based...
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Many hospitals will continue to use compounding pharmacies for hard-to-obtain drugs because they have no alternative, even though a deadly meningitis outbreak traced to a compounding facility has raised grave concerns about safety and oversight.
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The deadly meningitis outbreak has led to bipartisan calls in Congress for a thorough investigation of what caused it and how federal agencies are handling the problem.
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Dignity Health has formed a group purchasing organization and a for-profit joint venture with UnitedHealthcare that aims to address the costs of physician preference items, often among a hospital's most expensive needs.
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Hospitals in states where officials have either refused or fumbled the launch of health insurance exchanges under the healthcare reform law are working to influence and understand how the federal government would run a health insurance exchange to fill the void.
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Prime Healthcare Services is on a buying spree. The company's specialty is overhauling distressed hospitals, and it has an “aggressive” expansion plan for 2013, said Mike Sarian, president of operations.
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As the pressure mounts on the federal government to quickly produce examples of interoperability of health information technology, Blue Button, a relatively simple, government-sponsored medical record-sharing technology, has in the past two years advanced from an idea to the newest means of health...
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The deadline for submitting nominations for Modern Healthcare's 2013 Trustee of the Year program has been extended until Dec. 28. The 2013 awards, co-sponsored by executive search firm Witt/Kieffer, will honor four outstanding trustees or directors for their contributions to healthcare governance.
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Hospitals are increasingly contacting patients with scheduled procedures about their medical bills—and when the patients will be able to pay them—before or during a hospital visit.
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After 17 months of mediation, Beebe Medical Center, Lewes, Del., reached a proposed settlement with the families of hundreds of children abused by a staff pediatrician that will fairly compensate the victims without driving the hospital into bankruptcy, the parties said in a joint statement.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Flu vaccines are now mandatory for Rhode Island healthcare workers who have direct contact with patients in healthcare facilities in the state. The policy, proposed by the Rhode Island Department of Public Health, gained approval despite objections from the American...
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BATON ROUGE, La.—As Louisiana faces its lowest federal matching rate for Medicaid in decades, LSU System officials announced a plan that will allow all LSU public hospitals to stay open, but at the cost of nearly 1,500 jobs throughout the system. Congress this year cut the state's...
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A plan intended to foster interconnected health information exchanges across Michigan has gone awry as companies providing the services compete for hospitals, physicians and market share.
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CHICAGO—University of Chicago Medicine named its new $700 million pavilion the Center for Care and Discovery in a nod to creating a patient- and research-focused facility. The hospital system is in talks with several potential donors whose name or names would be added to the building's...
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SANTA TERESA, N.M.—Universal Health Services, King of Prussia, Pa., has completed its $517 million acquisition of behavioral health firm Ascend Health Corp., New York, after agreeing to sell off a New Mexico facility to resolve antitrust concerns raised by the Federal Trade Commission.
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I have always had a very high regard for healthcare in general. It stems from my father, who is a surgeon and a former professor of surgery.
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Any hospital executive knows the argument that healthcare in America is undermined by a reimbursement model that pays for procedures instead of outcomes.
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"Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare” signals to viewers that healthcare in this country is broken. The traditional delivery model no longer works. As President Abraham Lincoln once said, “We must think anew and act anew.” That's what healthcare needs now—a...
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A list of the nation's 18 largest physician staffing firms based on National Association of Physician Recruiters membership, ranked by number of physician recruiters as of September 2012. Source: NAPR. Published Oct. 15, 2012, p. 33.
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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett named Michael Wolf the Pennsylvania Department of Health's acting secretary after the resignation of Dr. Eli Avila. Avila, 51, “planned to pursue other interests,” Corbett said in a news release. The physician and attorney also looked forward...
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When Denver's old St. Anthony Central Hospital closed last year, its staff moved out to its replacement facility four miles away in suburban Lakewood. Now the equipment from the old hospital is finally moving, too, only it's going a bit farther away: Vietnam.
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(This item has been edited to correct Anup Malani's job title.)Better health insurance coverage—such as that being provided by healthcare reform—may be bad for medical innovation.
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Of course, you know Oct. 15 is the fifth annual Global Handwashing Day. We assume your present to Outliers is still in the mail, so we'll be on the lookout.
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“And we discovered something else: Patients will respond to insincere comments. But as we started treating them differently, they started treating us differently. It didn't surprise me that there was a link between patient satisfaction and employee satisfaction. What surprised me was which...
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