EMH Healthcare, Elyria, Ohio, has inked a letter of intent to officially explore joining University Hospitals, located about 35 miles east in Cleveland. FULL STORY »
Despite two months of pain induced by Medicare cuts under the deficit-reduction law triggered this year, advocates for hospitals and physicians are waiting until fall to push a legislative fix. FULL STORY »
Faced with the prospect of Congress and regulators stepping in to do it for them, the Healthcare Financial Management Association is crafting new standards for the delicate matter of medical debt. FULL STORY »
Hospital consumer prices barely budged upward last month, just one month after they recorded the largest one-month drop since the federal government began recording the price indices 16 years ago. FULL STORY »
By Modern Healthcare | June 15, 2013
| Print Magazine
It's long been known that healthcare does not fit the standard model for perfect competition. Author Douglas Hough goes further: He says patients, providers and other stakeholders are irrational. FULL STORY »
An independent study released today on the economic impact of Medicaid expansion under healthcare reform found that states' share of the cost of expanding Medicaid under reform would be lower than the cost of providing uncompensated care to their uninsured residents. FULL STORY »
The CBO estimates that the policies in the president's fiscal 2014 budget proposal would curb Medicare spending by about $364 billion over 10 years. FULL STORY »
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