The relatively strong flu season, which has reached epidemic levels, could boost revenue at hospitals eventually as a result of increased hospitalizations.
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It's too soon to pop the Champagne corks on healthcare spending. But the latest evidence suggests the slowdown is real and not just recession-related.
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This year was anticipated as the final dash toward the 2014 rollout of the healthcare reform law's major provisions. But the healthcare industry is also coming to the realization that 2013 will probably be remembered for more fiscal fights and deep federal cuts.
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The state of Arkansas' health system transformation is getting a financial boost from Wal-Mart Stores, which committed to providing $670,000 to help underwrite the work of the Arkansas Health Care Payment Improvement Initiative. The initiative, Arkansas Surgeon General Dr. Joe Thompson said, is a...
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Fitch Ratings knocked West Penn Allegheny Health System's credit rating to C and said analysts believe “negotiated debt restructuring appears to be inevitable to forestall insolvency.” The C rating is the lowest Fitch rating that does not indicate a default. West Penn Allegheny, the...
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The relatively strong flu season, which has reached epidemic levels, could boost revenue at hospitals eventually as a result of increased hospitalizations.
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Andy Carlson's plans to expand from two Colorado hardware stores to three will largely depend on three things, he says: potential profits, estimated expansion costs and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Medicare entered year two of its accountable care experiment with a significant expansion, even as a top official said it was too soon to release early results.
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A bipartisan group of senators blasted the CMS about the level of oversight in the $124 billion Medicare Advantage program after HHS' inspector general's office released an audit report suggesting there's very little.
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Facing ramped-up federal requirements and new accreditation standards, hospitals are taking a closer look at how to best use interpreters to meet the needs of patients with limited English proficiency.
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Placing an unnecessary stent inside a patient's heart is “a crime of unthinkable proportions,” according to one of the government's top Medicare watchdogs, Nicholas DiGiulio, special agent in charge of HHS' inspector general's office for the Philadelphia region.
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Opponents of the healthcare reform law's Independent Payment Advisory Board warn that its unilateral decisions could be disastrous for the industry and Medicare patients. But if Medicare spending keeps going the way it has the past few years, the board will never hold a meeting.
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Duke LifePoint marked the start of an aggressive, nationwide expansion strategy for the two-year-old joint venture when it inked a deal to acquire a hospital on Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
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Transplant surgeon and former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) sees a healthcare industry in flux, driven by the need to crack the “value equation” that ties cost control to outcomes. Frist signed on as co-director of a new fellowship program established by the Nashville...
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Last summer's U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act appears to have quelled some unease about the law for hospital CEOs.
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Americans live shorter lives and are sicker than their peers in other affluent countries, the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine concluded in a new report. The U.S. fared worse than average in nine health areas, including chronic lung disease, heart disease and infant...
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This year was anticipated as the final dash toward the 2014 rollout of the healthcare reform law's major provisions. But the healthcare industry is also coming to the realization that 2013 will probably be remembered for more fiscal fights and deep federal cuts.
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It's too soon to pop the Champagne corks on healthcare spending. But the latest evidence suggests the slowdown is real and not just recession-related.
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“Americans don't particularly like government, but they do want government to subsidize their healthcare. They believe that healthcare spending improves their lives more than any other public good … Americans opposed any cuts to Medicare by a margin of 70% to 25%. In a democracy, voters...
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Over the past five years, Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO George Halvorson, who will retire at the end of this year, sent a weekly letter to the 180,000 people who work for the nation's largest integrated healthcare delivery system. Every letter celebrated a particular success within the...
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Your cover story on how Medicare rewards and outcomes are not always linked (“Quality paradox,”) suggests that the CMS has developed standards for reimbursement for quality that exceed...
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The Georgia Hospital Association promoted Earl Rogers to president and CEO to replace longtime leader Joseph Parker. Parker, who has served as the GHA's president and CEO since 1986, announced his retirement last July. Rogers, 59, will step into the role July 1. He currently serves as...
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It's a familiar sensation, particularly among lovers of wool sweaters or frequent victims of insect bites, but itchiness and its causes have long been a source of contentious debate among scientists. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine now think they may have come up with an...
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Add “dystextia” to the diagnostic terms physicians can throw around. And while it's about the oft-annoying subject of text-messaging, Outliers will refrain from too much smart aleckery, since it involves a serious topic.
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Outliers is sure you're familiar with the phenomenon: You're waiting (… and waiting) in the doctor's office or a hospital, and all there is to read is a 10-year-old copy of Golf.
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