Here is a list of five hospitals that emerged from bankruptcy in 2010.
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CMS will host teleconferences on the ICD-10 implementation on Jan. 12 and on the Medicare fee-for-service implementation of the HIPAA Version 5010 and D.0 transaction standards on Jan. 19, according to an AHA News Now report.
The real estate of Baylor Medical Center at Frisco (Texas) has been acquired by Nashville, Tenn.-based Healthcare Realty Trust for $133.5 million, according to a Tennessean report. Baylor’s campus includes a 68-bed hospital, two office buildings and two parcels of…
Even though Congress approved a zero percent update for Medicare physician fees in 2011, the CMS calculation for the 2011 conversion factor represents a 7.8554 percent cut, according to a report by the Idaho Medical Association.
Hospitals today are judged on their ability to meet certain performance indicators ranging from clinical outcomes to financial goals. High-level performance has always mattered in healthcare, of course. But over the next several years, as health reform changes go into…
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William C. McGinly, president and CEO of the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy, provides 12 tips for hospital fundraising efforts, based on AHP surveys and other input.
A new study said one in five defibrillators are implanted in patients who don’t meet recommended guidelines, and complications and deaths are more frequent in those patients, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Seven hospitals have agreed to pay the United States more than $6.3 million to settle allegations that they submitted false claims to Medicare related to kyphoplasty procedures performed between 2000 and 2008, according to a U.S. Department of Justice release.
The AHA spent $4.3 million lobbying the federal government in at least six areas in the third quarter of 2010, a slight increase over the second quarter and an 11 percent rise over the third quarter of 2009, according to…
The new Republican-controlled House of Representatives has scheduled a vote to repeal the healthcare reform law on Jan. 12, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal Health Wire.