Leadership & Management

Reps. Sam Graves (R-MO) and Ron Kind (D- WI) have introduced a bill that would allow critical access hospitals to continue to include the full cost of provider taxes as allowable costs for purposes of determining Medicare reimbursement, according to…

Kansas City, Mo.-based St. Luke's Health System will open its new Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton, Mo., next Tuesday, according to a news release by the health system.

Richard Lopes, MD, former president of WellStar Medical Group, claims interim CEO Jim Budzinski fired him to prevent him from revealing alleged billing and revenue violations, according to a Marietta Daily Journal report.

Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital employees are planning to protest outside Rabobank headquarters in response to what they call a "questionable financial relationship" between the hospital, the prominent local bank and the bank's president, according to a Monterey Herald report.

As more people choose high-deductible health insurance or drop coverage altogether, hospitals are under pressure to improve their collection efforts with patients, says Jim Bohnsack, vice president of the healthcare group at TransUnion, the credit-reporting agency.

Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y., has fired neurosurgeon William A. Stewart, MD, claiming he refused to cooperate in an investigation, but Dr. Stewart says he was terminated for whistleblowing, according to a Post-Standard report. Dr. Stewart, who has been…

USC University Hospital in Los Angeles has re-opened its kidney transplant system after a physician accidentally transplanted a kidney into the wrong patient on Jan. 29, according to a Los Angeles Times report. The hospital has attributed the error to…

A new report by the Georgia Hospital Association found that Georgia hospitals created a $39.1 billion economic impact for the state in 2009, up significantly from $918 million in 2008.

Schuylkill Medical Center-South Jackson Street in Pottsville, Pa., has announced it will begin phasing out its employment of 51 licensed practical nurses over the next few months to add more registered nurses and nursing aids, according to a Republican Herald…

The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board will consider certificate of need applications for competing hospitals in the Chicago suburbs on June 28, according to a Chicago Tribune report.