Employee development — encouraging staff members to pursue promotions, further degrees, credentialing or personal improvement in areas of weakness — is essential for building a hospital of engaged, motivated colleagues. Eric Barber, CEO of Northeast Regional Medical Center in Kirksville,…
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A proposed Alabama bill would allow appeals of certificate of need decisions to go directly to the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals instead of going to Circuit Court first, according to a Birmingham News report.
William Roe, former CFO of Danbury (Conn.) Hospital has returned to jail after violating probation and will remain there until sentencing on May 20 for charges he defrauded the hospital of roughly $140,000 and other crimes, according to a News…
Louisiana will distribute $83 million to 27 private hospitals that care for needy patients through its Low-Income and Needy Care Collaboration Program, a program approved by CMS last November, according to a news release by Gov. Bobby Jindal.
The American Hospital Association has outlined its advocacy priorities for 2011 around 14 key areas and has released issue papers on each key area, which will be used to explain hospitals' concerns to legislators, according to an AHA News Now…
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Pressures on reimbursement and requirements through healthcare reform seem to demand a new model of care — one that takes down walls between providers and contains costs by eliminating redundancy and waste. In a webinar sponsored by healthcare management and…
The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) has announced the launch of a database which provides Medicare payment rates for outpatient procedures, cataract surgeries and MRIs to hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers in each Pennsylvania county.
Safety net hospitals have become a growing and important segment of the healthcare market. Historically, safety net hospitals have served economically-distressed people and those with limited access to acute care. Over the last several decades these hospitals have been defined…
More adults are foregoing medical care or health insurance because they can't afford it, according to studies by the New York-based Commonwealth Fund and D.C.-based Families USA.
The following ten physicians were either accused or convicted of fraud within the past two months, beginning with the most recent. 1. Retired Chief of Surgery Sentenced to 2 Years Imprisonment For Florida Medicare Fraud SchemeA retired chief of surgery…