The sustainability craze has reached the healthcare industry, as designers look to build new, state-of-the-art "green" facilities and existing hospitals upgrade their energy policies. Jeff Hull, director of architecture, construction, and real estate with Idaho based St. Luke's Health System…
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In southeastern Pennsylvania, payors’ downgrades of hospitals’ inpatient claims to observation status increased by more than 45 percent from Jan. to Aug. 2010, according to a report by the Philadelphia Business Journal. A survey of 29 hospitals by the Delaware…
With the challenges in our current healthcare environment, every hospital needs to be focused on cost reduction. Containing and reducing indirect expenses is as important as finding new sources of revenue to improve the financial health of an organization. Monitoring…
Brentwood, Tenn.-based LifePoint Hospitals has released financial results for its fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, reporting increased revenue but a decline in profit of 5.3 percent, compared to the same quarter a year prior.
Board members of the Public Health Trust, which oversees Miami-Dade County Jackson Health System asked county commissioners for a $32 million cash advance to keep the hospital open through the summer, according to a Miami Herald report.
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The Oklahoma House Appropriations Subcommittee on Public Health has voted unanimously to approve legislation that would assess a hospital provider fee on hospitals in the state in order to generate revenue for the state's Medicaid program, according to a Bloomberg…
Hospital prices rose 1.8 percent between Jan. 2010 and Jan. 2011, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Producer Price Index, which measures average changes in selling prices received by producers for their products and services.
Recovery audit contractors could still target Medicare payments to specialists for consultation codes, even though Medicare stopped those payments more than a year ago, according to John Paul Spencer writing in the RAC Monitor.
HCA Holdings, a Nashville, Tenn.-based hospital operator, has scheduled pricing for its up to $4.6 billion initial public offering on March 9, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Approximately 1,600 nurses at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C., have authorized a one-day strike in March to protest a lack of progress on contract negotiations between the nurses' union on the hospital, according to a Washington Post report.