Nearly 80 percent of uninsured patients seeking emergency care in California emergency departments were eligible for some form of government insurance but were not enrolled, according to a survey published in Health Affairs by the Foundation for Health Coverage Education. …
Leadership & Management
With more hospitals anticipating increased emergency department use as provisions of healthcare reform are implemented, the U.S. Government Accountability Office has issued a report outlining strategies for healthcare facilities to reduce non-urgent ED use. In 2008, the average amount paid…
Community Health Systems shareholders have filed suit against the hospital operator seeking to recoup losses stock losses suffered as a result of CHS' alleged Medicare overpayments, according to a report by The Tennessean.
The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board has denied a plan by the Cook County Health & Hospitals System to convert its Oak Forest (Ill.) Hospital into an outpatient facility, according to a Washington Post report.
A new report by HHS found that few uninsured have the financial assets needed to pay potential hospital bills, adding that the uncompensated cost of care to healthcare providers in the United States is up to $73 billion annually, according…
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Winchester (Mass.) Hospital has broken ground on a new, 31,200-square-foot ambulatory surgery center.
An operating room improvement project at Oakwood Annapolis Hospital in Wayne, Mich., improved physician satisfaction and saved the hospital more than $1.2 million, according to a Crain’s Detroit Business report. After a survey of surgeons revealed dissatisfaction with delays with…
A former hospital employee has filed a lawsuit accusing St. Luke’s Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla., of falsely billing Medicare and Medicaid during an 11-month span, according to an article in the Florida Times-Union Report. The suit, filed by BethAnne Algie,…
Tax-exempt hospitals (each a “hospital” and, collectively, “hospitals”), and their affiliated tax-exempt faculty or physician practices if applicable, may face concern about retaining their tax-exempt status in the face of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and other changes…
Vanguard Health Systems has released its third quarter financial results, announcing a profit of $2.8 million for stockholders, compared to a $32.8 million loss a year prior, according to a Detroit News report.