Hospitals news and information

A growing number of senior citizens are ensnared in a Medicare crackdown on hospitals over costly inpatient admissions.
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Nearly 15 years after the patient-safety movement started, deaths and injuries from poor care continue to be all too common in U.S. hospitals.
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Healthcare providers are threatening to sue insurers that pass along a 2% rate cut imposed on their Medicare Advantage plan payments under the federal budget sequestration law.
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Maryland has submitted a plan to the federal government to modernize the state's all-payer rate setting system for hospital services, Gov. Martin O'Malley announced Friday.
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In a series of leadership changes prompted by HCA CEO Richard Bracken's retirement at the end of this year, William Rutherford will become CFO and executive VP. Rutherford, 49, joined Nashville-based HCA in 1986 as a staff auditor and has served in a variety of roles, most recently as...
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Health information technology leaders have a lot on their plates today and more to come—implementing systems to match the federal IT incentive payment program upgrades, satisfying auditors roaming the land, meeting privacy constraints and preparing for the switch to a huge set of updated...
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Chief information officers aren't running their healthcare organizations, but maybe they should, says Jamie Heywood, chairman and co-founder of PatientsLikeMe.
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Earlier this year, Allegiance Health in Jackson County, Mich., began investigating whether to join Medicare's shared-savings program after seeing it was losing patients to neighboring counties.
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A credit analyst for not-for-profit healthcare providers is cautioning that the new state health insurance exchanges may introduce more short-term risk than benefit.
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UnityPoint Health, until recently known as Iowa Health, is making its biggest reach so far outside of its home state.
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