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Breaking the chain | Hospitals set supply cost-cutting targets, push physicians to change behavior
By Jaimy Lee | August 17, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Facing declining revenue and reimbursement, hospital systems across the U.S. are making it a priority to sharply reduce spending on supplies including gloves, syringes and hip implants.
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A niche business | More hospitals focusing on limited service lines
By Beth Kutscher | May 25, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Midway through their pregnancies, expectant mothers who plan to deliver at Winter Park (Fla.) Memorial Hospital will meet with a “birth designer” to choreograph their ideal birth experience.
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Doc-owned hospitals prep to fight
By Wall Street Journal | May 14, 2013
The reform law aimed to end a boom in doctor-owned hospitals, a highly profitable niche known for luxury facilities, but many of the hospitals are wiggling around the law's growth caps.
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Reform Update: Delaying DSH cuts may hamper Medicaid expansion
By Rich Daly | April 26, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The president's proposed delay in cuts to disproportionate-share hospital payments could be undermining efforts to expand Medicaid in some states.
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Proposed rule offers leeway on community needs assessments
By Melanie Evans and Gregg Blesch | April 04, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Tax-exempt hospitals that must conduct community needs assessments under the health reform law would get some leeway from penalties for minor missteps and got clarification about how to satisfy new rules under new draft regulations from the Obama administration.
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Cancer Treatment Centers alleges extortion by former exec
By Kristen Schorsch, Crain's Chicago Business | February 28, 2013
A former executive at Cancer Treatment Centers of America tried to extort nearly $50 million from founder and Chairman Richard Stephenson by threatening to reveal trade secrets, according to a lawsuit filed by the Schaumburg, Ill.-based hospital chain.
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Phoenix Children's ending Banner NICU management
By Ashok Selvam | January 07, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Phoenix Children's Hospital will no longer run the neonatal intensive-care unit at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, Phoenix, the largest hospital in the not-for-profit Banner Health system.
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Sentara in joint venture for new surgery center
By Paul Barr | December 03, 2012
Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center, Woodbridge, Va., formed a joint venture with development and management company Blue Chip Surgical Center Partners, Cincinnati, and a group of surgeons to form Lake Ridge Ambulatory Surgery Center.
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Atlanta docs develop app to detect heart defects
By Andis Robeznieks | November 30, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Cardiologists at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta have developed a smartphone application, Pulse Ox Tool, that can help detect congenital heart defects in newborns before they are sent home from the hospital.
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Fiscal cliff threatens for-profit providers: Fitch
By Melanie Evans | November 29, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
For-profit providers face the greatest risk from slashed spending and tax hikes known as the fiscal cliff, one major credit rating agency said in a newly released outlook for the healthcare industry.
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