The Healthcare Financial Management Association has listed several "areas of concern" in CMS' Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program in a letter to the Agency.
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A majority of Rhode Island House lawmakers expressed support of a proposed $7.7 billion budget, a majority of which includes payment cuts to healthcare providers, according to a Providence Journal news report.
The following CEOs represent some of the top hospitals in the country. They offer advice for fellow hospital leaders.
Meritus Medical Center in Hagerstown, Md., part of Hagerstown-based Meritus Health, is eliminating approximately 15 positions due to campus consolidation, according to a Herald-Mail report.
Hundreds of Salinas (Calif.) Valley Memorial Healthcare System employees staged the hospital's first-ever strike yesterday, according to a Californian report.
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Hospital operator Vanguard Health Systems raised $450 million in its initial public offering, less than initial estimates of $661 million, according to a Bloomberg report.
A circuit court judge has overturned Alabama's Certificate of Need Review Board's approval for Brookwood Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala., to build a free-standing emergency department in Hoover, Ala., according to a Birmingham News report.
A recent survey by Rivkin & Associates and Bauman Research & Consulting, both based in Glen Rock, N.J., suggests that consumers prefer a "hospital" over a "medical center."
St. Francis Health, with four locations throughout Indiana, announced it will be closing its Beech Grove campus, according to a local FOX news report.
Connecticut's State Bond Commission will most likely approve an $8.4 million expansion of Windham Hospital in Willimantic, Conn., according to a Hartford Business news report.