Here are 10 hospitals that are currently undergoing construction, including expansions and renovations. 1. The board of regents at the University of Texas approved plans to build a replacement $438 million hospital on the University of Texas Medical Branch campus.…
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Here are six hospitals that have announced job cuts, through attrition, layoffs or other means, in the past week.
While most primary care physicians in Anchorage are starting to turn away Medicare patients due to low reimbursement, one recently opened clinic accepts patients with a Medicare card, according to an Anchorage Daily News report.
The last patients of Walter Reed Army Medical Center have been transferred to National Naval Medical Center as the two hospitals prepare for the merge, according to a Washington Post report.
RegionalCare Hospital Partners, based in Brentwood, Tenn., is looking at potential lots to house its proposed 320-bed hospital in Alabama, according to a Times Daily report.
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New Jersey Senator Joseph F. Vitale said accusatory comments from the owners of Meadowlands Hospital Medical Center in Secaucus, N.J., illustrate the need for independent monitoring of the facility, according to a Hudson Reporter. While guiding a local newspaper reporter…
In a Los Angeles Times op-ed, a CMS administrator said the Obama administration has used Medicare’s electronic payment system to its advantage in its fight against fraud. Peter Budetti, deputy administrator and director for CMS’ Center for Program Integrity, wrote…
Three large, metropolitan hospitals could face Medicare cuts as soon as next year due to their poor readmission rate figures for the past three years, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.
E.J. Noble Hospital in Gouverneur, N.Y., and its 133 service employees represented by the Service Employees International Union have tentatively agreed on a new three-year contract, according to a Watertown Daily Times report.
Cleveland-based MetroHealth System is on pace to lose $1.1 million this year as of July, but initial projections showed an expected $40 million profit, according to a Plain Dealer report.