Outpatient Care news and information

Three years ago, Henry Ford Health System began to overhaul how its doctors and nurses care for patients outside the Detroit-based system's six hospitals. Now it must face the economic strains of its own success, as fewer patients turn up to fill hospital beds.
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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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Healthcare added 2,500 jobs in July, a slower growth pace that was consistent was the relatively sluggish national job hiring trend for the month.
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Sending seriously ill emergency room patients to outpatient observation—already under fire for the financial pain it inflicts on Medicare patients—obviously hurts hospitals' bottom lines, since they don't collect the higher inpatient fees.
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Aspirus Ontonagon Hospital, a small not-for-profit hospital in Ontonagon, Mich., last year generated about $1 million in revenue from a federal program that allows safety-net providers to purchase deeply discounted drugs.
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Since writing a cancer memoir in 2000, I've given talks at more than 150 hospitals and oncology clinics. I learned that many centers and clinics invest far more in their coffee stations, light airy infusion rooms and brochures than on the basics that make a...
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With the second quarter now in the books but not yet reported, the market will be waiting to see whether patient volumes rebound after a tough first quarter that saw large declines.
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Sansum Clinic and Cottage Health System have signed a letter of intent to merge and create an integrated health system combining three hospitals and 23 ambulatory sites serving patients near Santa Barbara, Calif., according to a news release.
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Managed care rapidly gained and quickly lost favor more than a decade ago, but even as it lost ground, it never fully lost a hold in the market. Now, it's an increasingly popular option among seniors enrolled in Medicare, and some managed-care tenets—care coordination led by primary care and...
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Growth in healthcare jobs slowed to levels not seen since January, primarily because hospitals shed 5,900 jobs for the month, according to preliminary, seasonally adjusted figures released Friday morning by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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