After the state Health Facilities and Services Review Board denied Illinois’ Cook County from transforming its Oak Forest (Ill.) Hospital into an outpatient clinic, officials are now trying to make the hospital exempt from the board’s further review, according to…
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Rick Pollack, executive vice president of advocacy and public policy for the American Hospital Association addressed attendees at the Becker's Hospital Review Annual Meeting in Chicago on Friday about current legislative priorities in Washington D.C., and how hospitals and other…
Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems announced it has received a subpoena from the Security and Exchange Commission regarding its admission practices, according to a Nashville Post report.
HCA has launched a new business services subsidiary that will provide non-HCA hospitals assistance in supply chain management, contract staffing, revenue cycle management and group purchasing, according to a report by the Tennessean.
Closures of emergency departments are linked to low margins, safety-net issues and for-profit status, as well as location in high-poverty areas and competitive markets, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Healthcare costs for employees are expected to increase by 8.5 percent in 2012, up from an 8 percent increase in 2011, according to PwC’s report, Behind the Numbers: Medical Cost Trends for 2012. Factors influencing the inflated costs for 2012…
Healthcare professionals today face a number of challenges, the least of which may be an unclaimed property audit. However, unclaimed properly should be of significant concern to hospitals and other healthcare providers. A little–known legal concept from the dark ages…
The Supreme Court has ruled that information gained by Freedom of Information Act requests cannot be used as the basis for False Claims whistleblower lawsuits, according to an AHA News Now report.
The Phoenix City Council is considering contributing $14 million over seven years for the development of an outpatient University of Arizona Cancer Center at the Phoenix Biomedical Campus, according to an Arizona Republic report.
Oak Forest (Ill.) Hospital, part of the Cook County Health & Hospitals System, has suspended surgeries after the hospital's lone anesthesiologist retired, according to a Chicago Tribune report.