On a recent Wednesday morning, a hospital in Portland, Ore., paged Dr. Christina Milano, a family physician, to notify her that one of her patients was in the emergency room. Within a half-hour, another hospital called when the same patient showed up in its ER.
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Should people newly eligible for Medicaid be treated differently from people getting coverage on the exchanges or, for that matter, from those who get coverage through their employers?
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The cost savings are attractive, but coming up with the money for a combined heat and power system, known a cogeneration, is a significant barrier.
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Healthcare is still a reliable jobs engine amid an otherwise feeble recovery in the labor market, according to the government's employment snapshot for August.
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At least 15 people may have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from neurosurgery instruments used on a patient suspected to have died from the rare brain disorder at Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, N.H. Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass., said that five patients who underwent...
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On a recent Wednesday morning, a hospital in Portland, Ore., paged Dr. Christina Milano, a family physician, to notify her that one of her patients was in the emergency room. Within a half-hour, another hospital called when the same patient showed up in its ER.
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Some states are emulating Oregon, and others are following somewhat different paths to control Medicaid costs and improve quality of care for their low-income residents. Some are focusing first on payment and...
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Federal officials for more than a decade have let hospitals charge Medicare varying rates for certain emergency department overhead and staffing costs called “facility” fees—a controversial policy some critics believe invites overcharges.
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CMS officials know that Medicare patients spend too much time with the murky status of outpatient observation, which leaves them on the hook for higher out-of-pocket costs. But a rule going into effect Oct. 1 may do little if anything to reverse the trend. Experts warn it may prompt hospitals to...
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Teaching hospitals and other expensive, prestigious hospitals have long argued that providing medical education and the best equipment available drives their costs.
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The hospital industry says Medicare's retrospective program of auditing hospital bills challenges too many claims that later turn out to be justified. But a report by HHS' Office of the Inspector General found that the Medicare recovery audit program is more accurate than hospital lobbyists...
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One warm night in mid-July, more than 4 million patient records breezed out the door of the Advocate Medical Group administrative office in the arms of an unidentified thief who stole four computers from the largest medical group in Illinois. The 1,100-physician medical group based in Park Ridge is...
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The future of U.S. healthcare and the future of the Medical Group Management Association will be discussed by the 5,000 people expected to attend the MGMA annual conference Oct. 6-9 at the San Diego Convention Center.
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The first construction projects with designs influenced by the healthcare-specific standards under the LEED program are just now being certified, with a Texas children's hospital leading the way.
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The cost savings are attractive, but coming up with the money for a combined heat and power system, known a cogeneration, is a significant barrier.
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Should people newly eligible for Medicaid be treated differently from people getting coverage on the exchanges or, for that matter, from those who get coverage through their employers?
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The majority of hospitals in the U.S. are struggling to transition from fee-for-service to capitated reimbursement directly tied to results. The best way to bridge that chasm is to transform the highest profile and most expensive component of most...
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Political posturing related to the Independent Payment Advisory Board aside (Aug. 26 editorial, “The IPAB punching bag,” p. 20), one portion of the IPAB statute that requires examination is a provision...
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A list of the nation's 10 largest publicly traded healthcare real estate investment trusts ranked by market capitalization, as of August 30. Source: National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts. Published Sept. 9, 2013, p. 34.
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The sight of coral, honeycombs or lotus blossoms don't send you into a panic? Then you must not be a trypophobe, or one who suffers from the fear of clusters of holes. Trypophobia is what one scientist calls “the most common phobia you've never heard of.” Even Outliers has to...
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It's the little things that add up. Like the minutes it takes annually to deal with each patient's HIPAA notice of privacy practices for protected healthcare information. Annually, that task eats up about 30.7 million hours of healthcare workers' and...
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“Big systems, consolidated medical groups, urgent-care centers, free-standing emergency rooms, retail clinics, community health centers, traditional community hospitals … just about any of these facilities nationwide would take another primary-care doctor if one walked in the door.
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The Sept. 2 article, “Filling a need,” should have said that the American Dental Association takes the position that dental hygienists can’t provide the same breadth of services that dentists offer,...
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