Care Coordination

Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta plans to create four new community health "super centers" around the Atlanta area, according to report by the Associated Press.

In a pioneering arrangement with its major payors, Children's Hospital Boston will limit fee increases while payors will fund pilot programs to develop ways to provide better care at lower costs, according to a report by the Boston Globe.

1. Anesthesia is not reimbursed for many GI procedures. ASCs should be aware that payors are increasingly unwilling to separately reimburse for anesthesia services provided during GI procedures. According to William Hoffman, MD, corporate medical director of Anesthesia Healthcare Partners,…

1. There are just over 32,900 anesthesiologists practicing in the United States. Anesthesiologists represent 5.2 percent of the 633,000 practicing physicians in the country, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-09.

HealthPartners, a Bloomington, Minn.-based HMO, and Minneapolis-based Allina Hospitals & Clinics announced that they have entered into a long-term collaboration to improve outcomes, satisfaction and affordability of care to patients in the northwest metro area of the Twin Cities, according…

Here are 10 states with the fewest non-federal, short-term, acute-care hospitals, according to the American Hospital Directory, listed by number of hospitals in the state. 

Here are the top 10 states with the most non-federal, short-term, acute-care hospitals, according to the American Hospital Directory, listed by number of hospitals in the state. 

Physicians and administrators at hospitals in rural areas of the country fear that healthcare reform will not provide enough money or incentives to cover their costs or to recruit physicians to rural communities, according to a report in The Miami…

Major construction has been completed on the new St. John's Mercy three-story, 125,000 square-foot outpatient center in St. Louis County, Mo., according to a report in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Highland Springs Medical Plaza in Beaumont, Calif., recently opened and began treating patients, according to a report by The Sun.