Leadership & Management

Hospitals are invited to submit data to the American Hospital Association's RACTrac survey by Jan. 14 on the impact of Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractor program and to attend a Jan. 5 webinar about the survey, according to a report by…

Rebecca Parrett, who served as an executive at healthcare financing company National Century Financial Enterprise, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for her role in a $1.9 billion corporate fraud scheme that included securities fraud, wire fraud and…

The number of emergency department visits that involved a computed tomography examination increased from 2.7 million to 16.2 million between 1995 and 2007, according to a study published in the Jan. 2011 issue of Radiology.

Keep current. Familiarize yourself with eight of the most relevant provisions in last year's healthcare reform law that went into effect Jan. 1.

Shortly after selling to for-profit Vanguard Health Systems, Detroit Medical Center is expected to announce the first $60 million out of $850 million in construction contracts today, according to a Crain’s Detroit Business report. Approximately 20 projects will be completed…

Hospitalists are increasingly central to the clinical, financial and operational success of hospitals. Entrusting an outsourced hospitalist practice group to such a key role requires hospital administration to think through the demands and expectations it wishes to create for the…

William C. McGinly, president and CEO of the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy, lists six ways hospital and health system CEOs can boost donations to their institutions.  

Here are five recent settlements and investigations involving hospitals.

The Regional Medical Center of Orangeburg (S.C.) & Calhoun Counties is hoping to recover a portion of the $500,000 it invested with Ponzi-schemer Bernie Madoff, according to a Times and Democrat report. The investment with Madoff was part of the…

The Massachusetts Hospital Association and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health have joined together to create a tobacco-free hospital initiative for 2011, according to a Boston Globe report.