The proposed $3.9 billion tie-up between Community Health Systems and HMA highlights the rise of the hospital mega-system as a response to declining inpatient volumes and payment rates.
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Dr. Donald Berwick, a former CMS chief, likes to remind people he is an advocate and wants to pursue his agenda as a candidate for governor of Massachusetts. He might add the title of preacher, too.
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It isn't often someone can enter an OR and watch doctors perform surgery. But Memorial Health Care System has allowed the public to do just that—through the Web.
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Federal legislators are pushing a ban on self-referral in radiation therapy in the wake of a U.S. Government Accountability Office report finding a massive jump in advanced radiation treatments for prostate cancer conducted at facilities owned by the referring physicians.
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The proposed $3.9 billion tie-up between Community Health Systems and HMA highlights the rise of the hospital mega-system as a response to declining inpatient volumes and payment rates.
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Community Health Systems faces pressure to sweeten its $3.9 billion cash and stock bid for Health Management Associates, with HMA's largest shareholder calling it too low.
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Whether it's the lingering aftershock of the Great Recession, stepped-up efforts at cost control by providers or a combination of the two, slow-growing medical claims led to surging profits for big commercial health insurers in the second quarter.
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President Barack Obama has enjoyed strong support from labor unions. But he's now facing the wrath of some labor leaders who argue that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Several years ago, Leake Memorial Hospital, a critical-access facility in rural central Mississippi, was on the verge of closing and was looking for a buyer when its officials discovered that the publicly run hospital was sitting on a time bomb.
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The decision last week by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommending annual lung cancer screenings for heavy smokers using low-dose computed tomography scans has reignited the controversy among physicians about the trade-off between benefits and risks for a number of cancer-screening...
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An article in Modern Healthcare's July 29 edition, “Still seeking best practices,” pullout section, p. S1, incorrectly identified the journal whose proper name is BMC Health Services Research.
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It isn't often someone can enter an OR and watch doctors perform surgery. But Memorial Health Care System has allowed the public to do just that—through the Web.
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Dr. Donald Berwick, a former CMS chief, likes to remind people he is an advocate and wants to pursue his agenda as a candidate for governor of Massachusetts. He might add the title of preacher, too.
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Four key reforms to expand insurance coverage were intended to fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle; in reality, they fit like pieces from four different jigsaw puzzles.
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The American Hospital Association and its members are committed to providing safe, high-quality healthcare. A major part of that effort is to provide reliable information to patients and their families so that they can make the best decisions about their...
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A list of all 50 states ranked by total acute-care discharges per 1,000 people, based on fiscal 2011 data. Source: American Hospital Directory; U.S. Census Bureau. Published Aug. 5, 2013, p. 34.
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For its 30th anniversary this year, the Salt Lake City-based Wilderness Medical Society decided to say it with paper. Posters, to be exact.
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An innocent Twitter exchange back in February with Green Bay Packers star quarterback Aaron Rogers has thrust a Colorado travel nurse into the media spotlight.
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“I bet you more people could tell you the name of the new prince of England than could tell you that the health market opens Oct. 1.”—HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
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An article in Modern Healthcare's July 29 edition, “Still seeking best practices,” pullout section, p. S1, incorrectly identified the journal whose proper name is BMC Health Services Research.
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