The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has extended the reasonable cost payment for clinical laboratory tests performed by hospitals with fewer than 50 beds in qualified rural areas as part of their outpatient services for the cost reporting periods…

Two Florida hospitals 10 miles apart stand to lose $10 million in federal funding for installing new electronic medical record systems because they share the same Medicare provider number, according to a report by the Ft. Myers News-Press.

Riverside (Calif.) Community Hospital is using text messaging to reduce wait times at its ED, according to the hospital's Web site.

In a letter to the American Hospital Association, UnitedHealthcare said it would not impose a 50 percent penalty on hospitals that do not notify the insurer of admissions to hospitals within 24 hours, according to a report in AHA News…

A radiologist has been connected with the breach of medical information for 957 patients at Griffin Hospital in Derby, Conn., according to a report in the Hartford Courant.

Henry Ford Health System's $360 million West Bloomfield hospital is still losing money after a year of operation, but the system has budgeted for the loss, according to the Detroit News.

There are no bad service lines, says David Anderson, a managing director at BDC Advisors in San Francisco, but each specialty poses particular challenges. Here he describes some of the challenges associated with 10 service lines.

The National Institutes of Health have awarded The Cleveland Clinic and lead investigator Yu-Shang Lee, MD, $1 million to research treatments for spinal cord injuries, according to a report in Crain's Cleveland Business.

The West Tennessee Surgery Center, which recently opened on the campus of 660-bed Jackson-Madison County General Hospital in Jackson, Tenn., is a 10-OR HOPD that replaces a 20-year-old facility.

University Medical Center of Southern Nevada will affiliate with the Nevada School of Medicine to become a teaching hospital under a plan approved by Clark County (Nev.) Commissioners, according to KTNV TV.