Executives at not-for-profit hospitals are getting more aggressive in pursuing potential deals and also becoming chummier with their for-profit counterparts in forming long-term ownership partnerships.
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Last year, the Utah-based SelectHealth insurance company paid $1 million to provide just five patients with the critical enzyme-replacement drug Cerezyme.
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Group purchasing organizations say the medical device industry is passing along the costs of a controversial excise tax to healthcare providers.
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A judge in Kansas City slapped HCA with a $162 million judgment last week for violating commitments to fix up distressed hospitals and provide indigent care. The community foundation's three-year legal battle to enforce the agreement highlights the difficulties in such arrangements.
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Last year, the Utah-based SelectHealth insurance company paid $1 million to provide just five patients with the critical enzyme-replacement drug Cerezyme.
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At least seven of the 35 new drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration last year cost $9,000 or more per month as manufacturers turn to developing high-priced specialty drugs to shore up bottom lines eroding from the expiration of patents on best-selling drugs that treat common conditions.
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Expanding Medicaid remains a hard sell in most states. Hospitals and patient advocates are finding they can do it with the right friends and if they show jittery lawmakers how to do it without growing an already crushing fiscal burden.
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Ahead of HHS' final word on essential health benefits, tension is emerging between provider groups that say giving states and health plans too much flexibility could render the coverage meaningless, and business groups that argue more flexibility is needed to make coverage affordable.
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Its mere mention sparks nervous giggles and sideways glances. But fecal transplantation, a decades-old procedure that uses donor feces to repopulate good bacteria in the guts of patients with recurrent infections, is gaining popularity as a highly effective method of treating resistant cases of the...
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With the clock running toward the start of a tougher stage of the electronic health-record incentive program, the government is struggling to hold up its end on testing and certifying the next generation of EHRs.
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Some federal officials say Medicare auditors are routinely misapplying CMS payment rules on denials that short hospitals hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for legitimate services.
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The National Union of Healthcare Workers and the California Nurses Association want to rally workers to take a more aggressive stance in collective bargaining, and to do that, they're ready to tear down the relationships its rival Service Employees International Union has built with some large...
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Each month, more hospitals and office-based physicians buy and use electronic medical records and other health information technologies as the U.S. presses on toward achieving the goal first articulated by President George W. Bush in 2004: providing most Americans with access to an electronic...
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Researcher Ross Koppel started an uproar in 2005 when he and a colleague coauthored an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association that found a first-generation computerized physician order entry system (CPOE) at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania was simultaneously...
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The title of Dr. Scot Silverstein's teaching website at Drexel University, “Contemporary Issues in Medical Informatics: Good Health IT, Bad Health IT, and Common Examples of Healthcare IT Difficulties,” summarizes the veteran physician informaticist's general outlook on the current...
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Ambulatory care is getting more sophisticated, and advanced healthcare services that once required hospitalization can now be delivered on an outpatient basis.
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Executives at not-for-profit hospitals are getting more aggressive in pursuing potential deals and also becoming chummier with their for-profit counterparts in forming long-term ownership partnerships.
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HARTFORD, Conn.—One of Connecticut's largest hospitals could be the first hospital to join Ascension Health Care Network, a private equity-backed effort to launch a for-profit Catholic health system. St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, signed an exclusive letter of...
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Residents of the Mississippi Delta region are more likely to die from a number of conditions, including diabetes, heart disease and stroke, and federal officials are trying to improve efforts to reduce those disparities by taking a more focused approach.
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BATON ROUGE, La.—Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration scrapped plans to shutter Louisiana's Medicaid hospice program in February. Health and Hospitals Secretary Bruce Greenstein announced the reversal as hospice program supporters were gathering for a candlelight vigil on the state...
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FORT COLLINS, Colo.—The University of Colorado Health system broke ground Jan. 17 at the site of its new $11 million cancer center on the Harmony campus of its 238-bed Poudre Valley Hospital. The 30,000-square-foot outpatient facility is expected to be completed next year. The building...
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COLUMBIA, Mo.—Statewide health information exchanges in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Illinois will be able to send and receive basic healthcare messages between each using the federally developed secure messaging protocol. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information...
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“President Barack Obama began his second term … with a speech that recalled the words of the founders and civil rights pioneers to challenge the American people to come together to realize the dreams of earlier generations.
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Most Americans know that healthcare is too expensive, and that we should get better value for our money. In fact, we spend twice as much on healthcare as other nations while getting about the same results.
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While the recent article “Lost in Translation?” highlights the drawbacks of telephone interpretation in healthcare, it fails to mention the popular technological advancements in interpretation...
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A list of 20 largest U.S. healthcare mergers and acquisitions announced in 2012, ranked by completed or pending deal's price. Source: Modern Healthcare's 2012 Healthcare M&A Watch series; WNS Global Services. Published Jan. 28, 2013, p. 42.
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Universal Health Services, King of Prussia, Pa., named Dr. Lynda Ann Smirz to the newly created role of VP and chief medical officer of its acute-care division. Smirz, who joined UHS in January, previously was VP of surgical services and CMO for Indiana University Health North Hospital,...
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“HIPAA has made it far too difficult to surface potentially dangerous people. ... HIPAA clearly went too far. The question is, if you have information and you have a reason to believe this person is dangerous, should there be a way to surface that?”
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