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Reducing surgical complications for patients has the obvious benefits of better patient safety and quality of care, but it may perversely hurt hospital revenue and reimbursements as well, according to a study from Health Affairs.
When it comes to hospital care in the Dakotas, few systems are more prominent than Sanford Health, and Lisa Carlson has made sure the system's finances have remained among the strongest in the upper Midwest.
In fiscal year 2012, Winfield, Ill.-based Cadence Health recorded more than $1 billion in total revenue — the first time the system has surpassed that mark, according to a Crain's Chicago Business report.
Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare (pdf) announced it completed its private offering of $800 million in senior notes.
Although two major Medicare payment programs for rural hospitals have expired, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has said restoring those payments will be "one of my top priorities" before the end of this year, according to a Daily News report.
The idea of turning Medicare into a "premium support" program, or a voucher-based system, has been floating around for a long time now, and a study from the Kaiser Family Foundation (pdf) found that a premium support design would actually…
Reps. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) have proposed the Medicare Audit Improvement Act of 2012, a bill that would restructure the way Medicare Recovery Auditors — formerly known as recovery audit contractors — can review providers.
Do these two questions sound familiar? "What makes a good hospital or medical group cost accounting implementation?" and "What is important to know when one embarks in a hospital or medical group cost accounting effort?"The answers are generic in nature…
Krystal Claymore, CFO of Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte, Neb., is no stranger to financial leadership at hospitals, and she is responsible for the financial oversight and service line management of the only hospital in Nebraska's Lincoln…
It's no secret that the government overpays private Medicare Advantage plans by billions of dollars, but according to a report from the Commonwealth Fund, President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law will attempt to cut back on $12.7 billion in annual…