The grim uncertainty that froze the healthcare construction industry during the Great Recession appears to have lifted—only to be replaced with a new type of uncertainty.
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Total healthcare costs have remained in check for three straight years, and the sector's share of the overall economy hasn't budged since 2009.
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The American Hospital Association is not backing down from its lawsuit against the CMS that claims healthcare providers have lost hundreds of millions of dollars in reimbursements through a billing policy that unfairly penalizes providers who submit incorrect Medicare claims.
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Primary care was a winner in this year's National Resident Matching Program match day, with the number of students choosing primary-care specialties rising by nearly 400 to 7,328, according to the NRMP, which brings together specialty programs with applicants using a computer program based on the...
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Hospitals in states that elect not to expand their Medicaid programs could find their bottom lines squeezed in the coming years as they're hit with higher charity-care costs and fewer insured patients than envisioned under the federal healthcare reform law. A report from Moody's Investors Service...
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The Cleveland Clinic's unlikely partnership with Community Health Systems is supposed to marry the best of both worlds: an outcomes-driven academic medical center known for handling complex medical cases and the operational discipline of a large and successful investor-owned hospital chain.
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Republicans and Democrats in Congress are still worlds apart on taxes and spending, as they showed in budget blueprints that launched a new round of debate on the federal deficit. They agree, though, that Congress should find billions in federal healthcare spending to cut over the next decade.
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An influential doubter poured cold water on the Obama administration's promise that health insurance marketplaces across the U.S. will be open for business in a matter of months, even as officials stand by their word that enrollment will begin in every state Oct. 1.
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Change is occurring at an unprecedented pace in all sectors of the healthcare industry. As healthcare reform continues to roll out and the nation confronts stubborn economic issues, plenty of challenges lie ahead. Who do you think will be leading the industry through the coming...
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Hospitals have been gobbling up physician practices at a rapid clip in recent years, raising concern among antitrust regulators that some of the acquisitions will lead to monopolistic practices such as price gouging. Yet the government still hasn't brought a single case to trial, which would...
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More patients waiting for a kidney transplant could be getting the organ they need if a greater number of transplant centers worked in concert with other centers through programs that match living donors with compatible recipients.
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Many hospitals that expect to see less from Medicare starting next month will spend less themselves under efforts to slash costs. Executives say they'll have no choice as pressure to curb healthcare spending grows.
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Charlean Nichols, a 56-year-old home-care worker in Houston, spends more than 40 hours a week helping her low-income elderly clients, many of whom suffer from dementia and other debilitating ailments while they stay at home. Her current client, an elderly man, rarely ate food prepared by his...
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Modern Healthcare's 37th annual Hospital Systems Survey is now open for participation. This survey is intended for U.S. organizations that own, lease or sponsor two or more acute-care or psychiatric hospitals with a unique...
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Mobile healthcare apps are multiplying fast and putting a vast array of new tools in the hands of patients and the providers who deliver their care. The pace and scope of innovation makes it hard to imagine what app developers will create next. So we put the question to some of the thinkers in the...
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Smaller healthcare providers, as well as many of the firms that work with all healthcare providers, are struggling to comply with federal data security rules that take effect soon. But even larger healthcare providers would do well to examine their contracts with the firms with which they deal, to...
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Both providers and payers have been saying for years that personalized medicine will radically alter the way that cancer patients receive care.
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The grim uncertainty that froze the healthcare construction industry during the Great Recession appears to have lifted—only to be replaced with a new type of uncertainty.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Florida hospital officials are lobbying lawmakers to expand Medicaid coverage to roughly 1 million residents under the federal healthcare law. A rally last week in Tallahassee came a day after a Senate panel voted against traditional Medicaid expansion and instead...
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SACRAMENTO, Calif.—A Democratic California state lawmaker introduced a package of bills to address an expected doctor shortage as the state prepares to insure millions of new patients under federal healthcare reforms. State Sen. Ed Hernandez said his bills would expand services that...
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Funding cuts from the state of New York are expected to sock publicly funded hospitals, particularly SUNY Downstate Medical Center, which has less than five months before it could face insolvency.
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JOPLIN, Mo.—McCarthy Building Cos. has topped out the new Mercy Hospital Joplin, the 875,000-square-foot, seven-story structure built to replace St. John's Regional Medical Center. The former hospital was destroyed in May 2011 when the deadliest tornado to hit the U.S. since 1947...
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Total healthcare costs have remained in check for three straight years, and the sector's share of the overall economy hasn't budged since 2009.
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“There's nothing wrong with President Barack Obama speed-dating members of Congress. Meeting face to face over food and wine, as Obama has recently done with several groups of lawmakers from both parties, may ease the demonizing politics of the last four years. ...
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Desperate after a decade of trial and error to make the connection that could usher in a new generation of anti-HIV drugs, University of Washington researchers threw the scientific version of a Hail Mary pass.
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When it comes to infection control, the healthcare industry is paying attention. I am proud to say my staff is as well. The first comment they had when they saw the March 4 cover of Modern Healthcare was, “Look at the dangling masks!”
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A list of the nation's 20 largest healthcare foundations awarding health grants, ranked by total amount awarded in 2011. Source: The Foundation Center. Published March 18, 2013, p. 32.
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Dave Underriner, COO of Providence Health and Services, was promoted to CEO of its Oregon region. Effective April 15, Underriner, 54, will replace CEO Greg Van Pelt, who announced his retirement in February. Underriner's father, who led Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, Portland,...
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“We don't have a (cardiac catheterization) lab and we used to transport patients to the closest noncompetitor hospital, which is a 30-minute drive away. Baldrige made us think differently about our processes. We had to say that the best thing for the patient is to go to our closest...
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