The Office of Inspector General conducted unannounced visits to 132 independent diagnostic testing facilities in the Los Angeles area, finding 46 of them to be noncompliant with selected Medicare standards, according to an OIG report. Of those that were noncompliant,…
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Once the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services implements value-based purchasing in 2013, eligible hospitals will be rewarded by the agency based on their performance against specific standards. While it has always been reasonable to assume that the quality of…
St. John’s Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis has undergone a name change, according to a KSDK report. As of noon yesterday, the hospital changed signage to reflect its new name: Mercy Hospital St. Louis. The new name will officially…
A Wyoming county commissioner said the physician-owned Mountain View Regional Hospital in Casper, Wyo., is holding back healthcare in the community and is the cause of Wyoming Medical Center, also in Casper, potentially losing $8 million in Medicare reimbursements, according…
Patient transfers among New York hospitals have created a billing headache for hospitals and other providers who had to evacuate or accept patients, according to a Crain's New York Business report.
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The American Hospital Association has submitted comments to CMS in regard to the value-based purchasing component of the proposed 2012 hospital outpatient prospective payment system, saying "CMS has not met its requirements with respect to certain measures. This failure will…
Three appeals court judges agreed with a lower court's verdict that a female spine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital was subject to a "hostile environment," according to a Boston Globe report.
South Baldwin Regional Medical Center in Foley, Ala., has made its walk-in urgent care center a 24-hour facility, according to a Baldwin County Now report.
JPS Health Network, based in Fort Worth, Texas, has reopened the JPS Diagnostic & Surgery Hospital of Arlington as an outpatient center, according to a Star-Telegram report.
Manchester (Ky.) Memorial Hospital has broken ground on a facility that will eventually house a new lab and a radiology department, according to a WKYT report.