Officials from Salinas (Calif.) Memorial Hospital have presented plans to lay off 200 full-time and part-time employees by June 15, according to a Monterey Herald report. A hospital spokesperson said the layoffs are part of a hospital-wide restructuring effort, but…
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University of Chicago Medical Center’s 1,300 unionized nurses have voted to authorize a strike if their bargaining demands aren’t met, according to a Chicago Tribune report. Contract negotiations have been underway since August between the union, National Nurses United and…
Dawn Q. McLane, RN, MSA, CASC, CNOR, regional vice president of operations at Health Inventures in Broomfield, Colo., says deciding whether to bring new cases into the ambulatory surgery center involves working through six key concerns.
A Missouri Senate bill would require insurance companies to provide consumers with information on the cost of services through various medical providers, according to a Columbia Missourian report. Under Senate Bill 122, people could simply type the services they need…
The Illinois Finance Authority has preliminarily approved a new program that would allow unpaid Medicaid claims from hospitals, physicians and other providers to be funneled to a group of investors in efforts to speed up unpaid payments, according to a…
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California’s insurance commissioner has filed to intervene in a whistleblower lawsuit accusing Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health, a 24-hospital system, of falsely billing for millions of dollars of anesthesia services, according to a California Department of Insurance news release. The case…
The Missouri Senate has passed legislation to extend hospital taxes two more years from its Sept. 30 expiration, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
Emergency departments see almost 30 percent of all visits for acute care — cases that should be seen in a physician's office, such as stomach pain, fever, chest pain, cough or a flare-up of a chronic condition, according to a…
Legislation introduced by Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) would ease supervision requirements for many hospital outpatient therapy services, according to an AHA News Now report.
An analysis by health economist Joseph Newhouse, who serves on the Congressional Budget Office Board of Health Advisors and co-chairs the 2010 Technical Review Panel on the Medicare Trustee Report, suggests that the methodology CMS uses to calculate the documentation…