Leadership & Management

Prime Healthcare Services has announced significant staff reductions and major restructurings for its Alvarado Hospital in San Diego, which Prime acquired in November, according to a San Diego Union-Tribune report. Ontario, Cali.-based Prime announced the layoffs but didn’t disclose how…

Diversified Collection Services, the RAC for the Northeast, recently stated that Maryland hospitals would not be subject to DRG validation audits, according to a report by the Maryland Hospital Association.

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld a longstanding requirement that hospital payments to medical residents are subject to payroll taxes, according to report by the Wall Street Journal.

Michael Olive, director of performance improvement at RWD Technologies in Baltimore, discusses five proven methods to make your hospital more efficient.

More than half of state Medicaid programs allowed more people to enroll in 2010 or made it easier for them to do so, according to a release by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Here are five statistics on the most expensive hospital stays, according to data from HCUP's Most Expensive Hospitalizations 2008, the most recent year available. "The top five percent" refers to the top five percent of hospital discharges based on total…

Community Health Systems issued a statement urging Tenet Healthcare Corp. to engage in good-faith discussions for a mutually beneficial transaction after Tenet enacted a "poison-pill" trigger in its bylaws to make a hostile takeover of the company more challenging.

In a conference call with shareholders, Tenet Healthcare Corp. forecast earnings growth in 2011 due to expected improvement in patient volumes driven by both acquisitions and "organic" growth, according to a Reuters report.

University of North Carolina Health Care System and Blue Cross and Blue Shield are expected to announce plans to build a primary care facility and exclusively coordinate care for approximately 5,000 BCBS members, according to a News & Observer report.…

Health Management Associates expects to exceed expectations for 2010 and be "very active" in acquisitions for 2011, according to a release by the company.