St. Mary's Medical Center in San Francisco is one of four hospitals overseen by Glenna Vaskelis, Dignity Health's senior vice president for operations for the Bay Area. The location of the hospital was incorrectly identified in the Jan. 30 issue.
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Modern Healthcare is seeking participants for its inaugural Fast 40 award program that will recognize the fastest-growing companies in the $2.7 trillion healthcare industry. The industry is booming and so, too, are many organizations and corporations that serve it.
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The nation's hospitals and physicians are failing to properly care for the chronically ill, and the problem isn't going to go away anytime soon.
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A group made up of 13 drugmakers, governments, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and several global health groups made a $785 million commitment toward fighting neglected tropical diseases. Meanwhile, some U.S. lawmakers announced legislation aimed at expediting the development and approval of treatments for chronic diseases.
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Three provider groups criticized the Internal Revenue Service for the way the agency revised the Schedule H section of the Form 990 that hospitals file.
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Two CMS anti-fraud programs, whose Jan. 1 launch was scrubbed because of provider concerns, will start June 1 instead, according to the agency.
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Devicemakers criticized a new report from the Government Accountability Office finding that physician influence on hospital purchasing may cause hospitals to pay more for some implantable medical devices.
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U.S. tax-exempt hospitals devoted an average of 11.3% of their expenses to benefitting their communities, based on an analysis of disclosures the Internal Revenue Service required for the first time in 2009, according to the American Hospital Association.
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Hospitals, physicians and payers are all still scrambling to upgrade electronic billing systems and fix glitches to meet an already extended deadline with standards for electronic submission of healthcare claims and other administrative transactions.
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While healthcare’s finest minds continue to wrestle over how to measure quality, the National Quality Forum lit a match near another potential powder keg by taking the first steps toward defining how to measure “value.”
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