Hospitals news and information

The first time Jeff Shellan got a cardiac stress test for his troubled heart, the retail price was $2,166. His insurance company agreed to a discounted price of $885, of which Shellan paid $364. When his doctor suggested a retest a year later, the charge was $8,078, the discounted rate was $3,755,...
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The acute-care hospital Producer Price Index dropped 0.6% in April, preliminary data show. The decline is the largest one-month slide for the hospital inflation measure since January 2004, the first month for which data are available.
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If HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was calling health execs seeking donations, she didn't ask some of the largest not-for-profit hospital systems or their national trade group. She didn't need to.
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Not-for-profit Billings (Mont.) Clinic and for-profit, Brentwood, Tenn.-based RegionalCare Hospital Partners have formed a joint venture that seeks to draw on the operational expertise and financial resources of both organizations.
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A new study is questioning the benefits of dual-chamber implantable cardioverter-defibrillators.
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Two North Carolina hospitals recently reported operating losses that they say are attributable in part to projected revenue that has been delayed related to problems rolling out their version of the Epic EHR system, particularly with billing, procedure coding and collections.
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Nearly 100 people, including 14 doctors and nurses, were charged for their roles in separate Medicare scams that collectively billed the taxpayer-funded program for roughly $223 million in bogus charges in a massive bust spanning eight cities, federal authorities said Tuesday.
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Republican governors backing an expansion of Medicaid continue to hit headwinds in those efforts, and it is unclear what lessons can be drawn from the outcomes experienced by two of their colleagues.
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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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The Obama administration issued the rules Monday to carry out a major hospital Medicaid cut, even as it is trying to delay the reduction scheduled to begin in five months.
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