Leadership & Management

Wyoming Medical Center in Casper is facing cuts of nearly $8 million per year in Medicare reimbursements due to its pending loss of its "sole community provider" status, according to a Billings Gazette report.

Officials at Robinson Memorial Hospital in Ravenna, Ohio, are hoping to change the hospital's state from a county-owned entity to a non-profit facility, according to a Record Publishing report.

Shore Memorial Hospital in Somers Point, N.J., is close to opening its $125 million, 138,000-square-foot expansion, according to a Press of Atlantic City report.

Here are 10 cities with the highest levels of healthcare spending on patients with employer-sponsored health plans in 2009, according to research conducted by Thomson Reuters.

One of the greatest threats to a hospital is associated with contracting with actual and potential sources of referral. With estimates of Medicaid and Medicare fraud costing the country anywhere between $48-$200 billion a year, there has been increased interest…

Charlotte, N.C.-based MedCath has posted its third quarter financial results, which include net revenue of $91.8 million, down 1.4 percent compared to the third quarter of fiscal 2010.

A new report by Moody's Investors Service found that 20 percent of non-profit hospitals examined were losing money on operations, and 63 percent of non-profit hospitals had margins of break-even to 5 percent, according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Officials from California hospitals are complaining about the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development's backlog of hospital construction plans that are waiting to be approved, according to a Press-Enterprise report.

OSU Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio, is constructing a new tower that will house the James Cancer Hospital and critical care beds, according to a local ABC report.

Mercy Hospital in Oelwein, Iowa, will close its surgical unit, effective Sept. 5, according to a Daily Register report.