The drive to get big and get integrated is the defining dynamic in healthcare as providers and payers adjust to their fast-changing world.
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Five hundred hours. That's how much time a large hospital had to spend each week recently dealing with recovery audit contractor audits, the hospital's CEO told me at a conference.
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When primary-care physicians needed to go somewhere new to revitalize their field, they found that there was no place quite like the patient-centered medical home.
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A coalition of interest groups for doctors, nurses, hospitals and health IT experts led by the National Association for Healthcare Quality released a report calling on healthcare providers to establish tough policies for reporting patient-safety problems.
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Two weeks after top House Republicans called for HHS to halt meaningful-use incentive payments to providers, four Republican senators requested a meeting with staff members from the CMS and HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to discuss the program. Sens. John...
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Sixty members of Congress urged the CMS to drop plans for a proposed cut in physician payments when similar clinical activities are performed at the same facility on the same day. The expansion of multiple-procedure payment reductions and a 25% cut in the technical component for “potentially...
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Exeter (N.H.) Hospital said it will correct serious problems discovered after a hepatitis C outbreak last spring in time to stop federal officials from cutting off its Medicare funding. The hospital has been trying to correct deficiencies identified in July by the CMS. Among them are efforts to...
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The drive to get big and get integrated is the defining dynamic in healthcare as providers and payers adjust to their fast-changing world.
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Two Missouri hospitals up for sale by Ascension Health, the nation's largest Roman Catholic health system, could strengthen HCA's hold on the Kansas City market.
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Wal-Mart Stores is betting that some workers who qualify to travel at the company's expense for heart and spine surgery may not need it after all.
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A new program by retail pharmacy giant Walgreen Co. could help hospitals avoid new penalties for 30-day readmissions while getting more prescriptions filled and improving patient outcomes in the process.
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As healthcare stakeholders remain anxious over the lack of clarity from the Obama administration on how to carry out key healthcare reform provisions, HHS continues to keep quiet about when it will release a slew of the law's regulations.
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Compounding pharmacies may face more regulations as lawmakers and stakeholders continue to question federal and state oversight of the Massachusetts pharmacy confirmed as responsible for the multistate fungal meningitis outbreak.
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The Federal Trade Commission is trying to make it more difficult for public hospitals to buy up their competitors, and a wide range of state governments and other observers have taken a keen interest as the matter heads to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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And then there were two. Over the past few years, three cities have vied to introduce a convention center-sized “healthcare marketplace”—aiming to attract new businesses and lucrative trade shows—but so far those efforts have yet to come to fruition.
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If the auditors at the inspector general's office of HHS had unlimited time and resources, they would like to launch focused audits on all 3,600 or so community hospitals that receive Medicare payments.
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The HHS' inspector general's office barred four former executives of surgical supply-maker Synthes from working for any company that receives Medicare funds, a penalty tantamount to ending their careers in healthcare.
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When Dave deBronkart was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer with tumors in both lungs, several bones and muscle tissue in 2007, he looked to the Internet and found his prognosis was labeled “grim.”
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When primary-care physicians needed to go somewhere new to revitalize their field, they found that there was no place quite like the patient-centered medical home.
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Five hundred hours. That's how much time a large hospital had to spend each week recently dealing with recovery audit contractor audits, the hospital's CEO told me at a conference.
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“It's painful enough when a disease like West Nile virus sweeps the country, as it did this summer, causing 168 deaths. But the current fungal meningitis outbreak is noteworthy for something else. It marks a lapse in the responsibility of government to protect against such a disaster. ...
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It's a familiar refrain—uncertainty, confusion, pressure, frustration. I often feel like a broken record when I'm describing our members' assessment of their current professional lives and the environment for medical practices. The ongoing Medicare payment uncertainty, steady increases in...
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A listing of the U.S. states ranked by total number of state medical board actions against physicians in 2010. Source: Federation of State Medical Boards' Summary of 2011 Board Actions. Published Oct. 22, 2012, p. 45.
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Press Ganey named Eileen Kamerick to succeed Rob Draughon as CFO, effective immediately. Kamerick joined Press Ganey from Houlihan Lokey, an investment bank, where she was managing director and CFO. Before that, she was CFO at Tecta America Corp., Heidrick & Struggles, Leo Burnett and...
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Diane Pinakiewicz will resign as president of the National Patient Safety Foundation, effective Nov. 12, capping nine years as head of the Boston-based not-for-profit organization.
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Outliers will confess to being a fan of resale shops and saving money by buying used goods. Though we'd never really contemplated the need for re-using implanted medical devices.
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When Aetna received an award this month for its disease-prevention work among Texas beneficiaries, it decided to send a public shout-out to Brazilian breakbeat DJ and process engineer Andre Porto.
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