Hospitals news and information

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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The doctors of Cornerstone Health Care in High Point, N.C., understand more than most the risk behind healthcare's push to overhaul payment policy.
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The message: Volumes under reform will be lower than expected, but additional Medicare cuts are all but assured.
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Hospitals and insurers that will benefit from the new paying customers generated by the expansion of insurance coverage under health reform have moved quietly to promote consumers' new options.
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Dr. Donald Berwick implored 5,000 healthcare financial professionals to improve outcomes while eliminating waste.
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Hospitals are self-auditing to make sure they properly navigate the “gray zone” of medical necessity.
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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.
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Despite the influx of millions of new Americans gaining coverage next year because of the healthcare reform law, the projected percentage cost increase to treat patients is expected to decline as consumers become savvier in how to spend healthcare dollars, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers...
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WakeMed Health & Hospitals and Key Physicians, one of North Carolina's biggest physicians practices, announced a partnership Monday designed to minimize federal penalties and maximize financial rewards under the national healthcare law.
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One expert is waving a warning flag at the federal government's race to increase healthcare price transparency.
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