Hospitals have been active dealmakers in an era of shrinking patient volumes and increasing reimbursement pressure—trading autonomy and independence for scale and access to capital.
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Shortly after hospitals implement energy conservation programs at their facilities, it's not unusual for utility companies to notify administrators that there might be some technical glitches with the electric meters.
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According to the the CDC, two-thirds of all healthcare personnel, 66.9%, received a flu shot in the 2011-12 flu season, which is up more than 3 percentage points from the previous season.
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Total Medicaid spending grew 2% on average across all states in fiscal 2012, the lowest rate of growth since 2006 and down from the 9.7% growth rate in fiscal 2011.
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U.S. hospitals could face as much as $53.3 billion in additional costs of uncompensated care by 2019 because fewer Americans will get coverage under the Medicaid expansion envisioned by the healthcare reform law, according to findings from the nation's safety net providers. The National Association...
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Hospitals have been active dealmakers in an era of shrinking patient volumes and increasing reimbursement pressure—trading autonomy and independence for scale and access to capital.
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The digital divide between small and rural hospitals and their larger and more urban counterparts may be closing, according to a Modern Healthcare analysis of a federal database of meaningful users of electronic health-record systems.
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The auditor has become the audit target. Along with reviewing things like electronic health records and patient-discharge practices, HHS' inspector general's office announced plans to investigate the private companies that the CMS has hired under contract to audit hospitals and doctors' offices.
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After years of uncertainty, patient advocates unveiled a proposed class-action settlement that they say would dispel a common Medicare “myth” that has limited services for people with chronic diseases.
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Weeks ahead of the presidential election, HHS announced what sounded like good news next year for Medicare Advantage, a program the department says the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act helped strengthen. But with the law's billions in program cuts yet to come, an $8 billion Medicare...
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(This story has been updated with a correction.)Boston Scientific Corp. is betting that its newly approved subcutaneous implantable heart defibrillator will not only serve as a less invasive alternative, but also will reduce the need for costly follow-up procedures.
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McKesson Corp.'s definitive agreement to purchase PSS World Medical represents what company executives believe is an opportunity for McKesson to quickly expand in a profitable and growing niche: distributing medical products to doctors and other non-acute-care providers. San Francisco-based...
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While healthcare mergers and consolidations continue to dominate the news, administrators for small and medium-sized medical practices met last week in San Antonio for the MGMA annual conference to commiserate about their struggles and offer each other support and encouragement just weeks before an...
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Modern Healthcare has chosen award-winning healthcare and business journalist Merrill Goozner to lead its newsroom as editor. Goozner, currently based in Washington, D.C., as senior correspondent for the Fiscal Times, will relocate to Chicago and join the staff in early December.
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Even as hospitals, not-for-profit groups and government agencies tout the successes from their efforts to prevent healthcare-associated infections, rates of Clostridium difficile, a highly contagious and dangerous bug, have continued to grow.
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Shortly after hospitals implement energy conservation programs at their facilities, it's not unusual for utility companies to notify administrators that there might be some technical glitches with the electric meters.
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AMARILLO, Texas—For-profit chain Ardent Health Services, Nashville, agreed to purchase 80% of one-hospital Baptist St. Anthony's Health System through a joint venture to be formed with Baptist Community Services of Amarillo, which currently owns half of the system and would own 20% of...
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CHICAGO—Presence Health plans to move its headquarters to downtown Chicago, the company and city announced last week. The move will put 200 workers in the same place, according to city officials. “A downtown location is central to the agencies and businesses with whom we...
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BOSTON—Massachusetts launched a statewide health information exchange that will allow healthcare providers to share electronic health information as they seek to improve coordination of care, lower costs and increase patient safety. Gov. Deval Patrick successfully sent his health data...
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FORT COLLINS, Colo.—Banner Health, a Phoenix-based system, is acquiring a 25- to 30-acre property in the southern end of Fort Collins and has submitted “conceptual plans” to city officials about the type of medical facilities that could be developed on the site. “The...
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According to the the CDC, two-thirds of all healthcare personnel, 66.9%, received a flu shot in the 2011-12 flu season, which is up more than 3 percentage points from the previous season.
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“Gridlock gets nothing done, that's why it's important to seek out lawmakers who see politics as the art of the possible. In the first two debates, President (Barack) Obama and Mitt Romney talked a lot about their plans. Their plans for the economy, the federal budget, healthcare, energy and...
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Editor's note: The following is an edited excerpt of the transcript of a May 22 editorial webcast, “Making Medicaid Work,” conducted by Modern Healthcare. The panelists were...
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David May: Good morning. Thank you for joining Modern Healthcare's editorial webcast. Today we'll listen to a discussion with three executives—two from hospital systems and one from a governmental agency—on strategies for making Medicaid work for providers and patients. How...
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I can't believe that the American Academy of Family Physicians in the 21st century would fail to represent the diversity of leadership required to address the broad-ranging restructuring of primary healthcare services (“
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A list of the 20 most prescribed pharmaceutical products ranked by total number of retail prescriptions in 2011. Source: IMS Health. Published Oct. 29, 2012, p. 32.
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Health Management Associates, Naples, Fla., created a chief nursing executive position and promoted Pamela Rudisill to serve in the role. Rudisill has worked at the publicly traded hospital chain since 1996, most recently as VP of nursing and patient safety for the past four years. She will...
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News that Clark Kent, Superman's alter ego, will quit his longtime job as a mild-mannered newspaper reporter recently hit, and Outliers has some career advice for the Man of Steel: He should find superheroic work as a hospital window washer.
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Homeless and uninsured patients at the Baltimore Rescue Mission's free clinic are getting a bit of a high-tech boost. Medical students at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland have developed and implemented an electronic health-record system for homeless and uninsured patients at...
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What is it about Lamborghinis and healthcare fraud? Outliers has noticed a taste for the ultra-cool exotics among some fraudsters, both in healthcare and out. Especially in Florida.
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“A person who is walking around with a 50% narrowing of the arteries may never have symptoms, but if they're held up at gunpoint or narrowly miss an auto accident, their adrenaline levels can rise and destabilize that plaque. That ruptured plaque can cause a blood clot to form, and now...
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