There's little evidence to suggest states will be ready to open the insurance exchanges needed to offer millions of uninsured Americans “affordable, quality healthcare coverage.”
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The worse-than-normal flu season brings to the fore a troublesome issue: Should health workers be forced to get the annual influenza vaccine?
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One of the lasting ripple effects of healthcare reform has been the drive toward consolidation—with health systems increasingly looking to take more control over the entire spectrum of care.
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The full chain of “business associates” of healthcare providers and others that fall under the reach of the HIPAA privacy and security rule are now on the legal hook to protect patient medical records or be subject to enhanced penalties.
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Regulatory action to require manufacturers of metal-on-metal hip implants to prove their devices are safe and effective has triggered new calls for an improved post-market surveillance system for all medical devices.
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There's little evidence to suggest states will be ready to open the insurance exchanges needed to offer millions of uninsured Americans “affordable, quality healthcare coverage.”
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Whether millions of Americans get the coverage envisioned in the healthcare reform law will come down to this: whether governors can stomach leaving federal money on the table. Even some of the law's fiercest critics now say they won't.
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Eighty-two. That's the number of people murdered in large-scale shooting sprees nationwide since April 2007, when 23-year-old Seung-Hui Cho opened fire on the campus of Virginia Tech University.
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While hospitals face staffing challenges because of the severity of the current flu season, the lessons learned from 2009's swine flu epidemic have left them better prepared to handle this year's outbreak.
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The nation's largest public hospital system is ripping a page from the CMS' playbook, linking incentive payments to physicians' performance on quality indicators and, in the process, trying to shore up its ability to capture revenue under new federal programs.
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Ongoing shortages of sterile injectable drugs have triggered a wave of investment in new and existing compounding pharmacies, which so far, at least, hasn't alleviated the shortages.
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Dr. Denton Cooley, Sister M. Maurita Sengelaub and Donald Wegmiller have been chosen as the latest inductees into Modern Healthcare's Health Care Hall of Fame.
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A federal judge has put a temporary hold on a settlement that would bring to a close the government's first-ever attempt to criminally penalize a major hospital system for making false statements to rip off Medicare.
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An article in the Jan. 14 issue (“2013 a 'world of transformation' ”) misstated the number of companies that are members of the Nashville Health Care Council, which established a fellowship for...
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Too many dying elderly patients are going into skilled-nursing facilities after leaving the hospital, experts say, and Medicare's reimbursement approach is largely the reason.
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One of the lasting ripple effects of healthcare reform has been the drive toward consolidation—with health systems increasingly looking to take more control over the entire spectrum of care.
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NASHVILLE—Vanderbilt University Medical Center is further expanding its reach across the state with a new affiliation agreement with West Tennessee Healthcare, Jackson. The deal represents 909-bed Vanderbilt's fifth affiliation in the region since October 2011. The academic medical...
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.— El Camino Hospital filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn a voter-approved measure that limits what the public hospital could pay its executives. Officials from the two-campus Silicon Valley hospital filed a complaint in Santa Clara Superior Court in San Jose. The...
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The CMS denied New York state's request for emergency cash relief for healthcare providers that lost revenue or saw expenses soar as superstorm Sandy forced the evacuation of hospitals and nursing homes.
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CHICAGO—University of Chicago Medicine will open a 10-story, $700 million replacement hospital next month, and officials gave politicians and other VIPs a sneak peek at the hospital last week. The hospital is set to admit its first patients Feb. 23. The new facility, named the Center...
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PORTLAND, Maine—Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems signed a definitive agreement to acquire Mercy Hospital, a 168-bed hospital in Portland, that is part of Catholic Health East. As part of the deal, EMHS will acquire Mercy and its service units, including VNA Home Health & Hospice in...
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The worse-than-normal flu season brings to the fore a troublesome issue: Should health workers be forced to get the annual influenza vaccine?
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Healthcare providers know that one of the principal challenges facing our society is caring for the vast number of aging Americans requiring healthcare. More than 10,000 people a day reach Medicare age, some of whom will develop multiple chronic conditions and account for a large share of Medicare...
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Joe Carlson's article "Safe at home” understates the number of direct-care workers in the home-care industry. He cites a government source, which tracks home health aides but does not include...
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A list of the nation's 25 largest teaching hospitals, ranked by the total number of residents and interns based on Medicare cost report figures, 2011. Source: American Hospital Directory. Published: Jan. 21, 2013, p. 32.
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Dr. Mark Smith, founding president and CEO of the California HealthCare Foundation, will step down at the end of the year. Smith, 61, will continue as a clinical faculty member at the University of California at San Francisco and practicing at San Francisco General Hospital's Positive Health...
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University of Chicago Medicine's new $700 million Center for Care and Discovery is scheduled to open Feb. 23. But for some historical preservationists and conservative activists, the bigger countdown is for an old...
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“It's totally crazy. Our billing system is terrible. I get some explanations of benefits from my insurer, and I don't understand what they are.”
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An article in the Jan. 14 issue (“2013 a 'world of transformation' ”) misstated the number of companies that are members of the Nashville Health Care Council, which established a fellowship for...
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