Podiatrist Arthur C. Haspel, MD, of Boca Raton, Fla., has been sentenced on two counts of filing false Medicare claims and faces 21 months imprisonment, two years of supervised release and $324,491 in restitution, according to a news release from…
Leadership & Management
The article below is reprinted with permission from The Capital Issue, a quarterly newsletter published by Lancaster Pollard.Multi-facility or multi-asset organizations faced with issuing or refinancing debt have an opportunity not afforded to stand-alone facilities: the ability to become greater…
More than 1,000 registered nurses at Kaiser Permanente's Kaiser Los Angeles Medical Center will hold a one-day strike this Wednesday, marking the first strike at a Kaiser facility in 17 years.
Proposed cuts to the Texas Medicaid program could greatly threaten the financial sustainability of rural hospitals in the state, many of which treat a large number of Medicaid patients, according to a Houston Chronicle report.
Florida healthcare organizations are engaged in debate over which facilities should receive healthcare tax money for treating the uninsured, according to a Miami Herald report.
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The AHA's RACTrac survey of 1,850 hospitals nationwide reported the following findings on activities of recovery audit contractors in the fourth quarter of 2010.
Some hospital cultures promote confidence and risk-taking among employees while others create stress and anxiety, and this substantially affects the bottom line, says Brad Federman, president of Performancepoint in Memphis, Tenn. Here Mr. Federman identifies four ways unalloyed fear can…
The AHA and other major national hospital trade groups filed a joint amici brief in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals supporting a lower-court decision to uphold the constitutionality of the healthcare reform law, according to a report by AHA…
There are several different ways orthopedic surgeons and orthopedic practices can align or partner with hospitals besides becoming employed physicians. Traditionally, non-employed physicians operated their practices and regarded the hospital as only the location for performing surgery. However, due to…
West Penn Allegheny Health System in Pittsburgh has posted a $26.8 million operating loss for the first half of the fiscal year, citing lowered inpatient volumes as a main contributor, according to a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review news report.