Here are 10 hospitals and health systems that recently butted heads with payors over contract negotiations and reimbursement rates.
Leadership & Management
Labor costs are one of the largest expenses for most hospitals, so tight management of staffing is essential to maintaining financial health. Dennis Patterson, chairman of The Collaborative for Healthcare Leadership, discusses eight ways hospital CEOs can cut labor costs…
Brad Ellis, partner and healthcare division leader of Kaye/Bassman International has recently commented on the success of nursing careers in Hospital Compliance Watch, according to a company news release.
More than 150 of the 200 physicians at Harlem Hospital Center in New York City have threatened to strike over the city’s decision to loosen an affiliation with Columbia University, according to a New York Times report. Columbia’s medical school…
Six healthcare systems, including the Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic and Dartmouth-Hitchcock, will collectively develop best practices on certain conditions and treatments and make them available to other providers, according to a news release from Dartmouth-Hitchcock.
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Illinois hospitals contribute an estimated $75.1 billion to the economy each year, roughly 6.8 percent of the state's gross domestic product, according to a new report by the Illinois Hospital Association.
Hospital prices increased 0.3 percent from October to November and 1.8 percent from Nov. 2009, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Producer Price Index.
Stent sales representatives, who disobeyed a Baltimore hospital's ban on salespeople occupying cardiac treatment rooms while procedures are being performed, are being linked to a cardiologist sued for unnecessarily implanting the stents, according to a report by The Baltimore Sun.
CMS and RAC consultants make the following points on the difference between automated and complex reviews by recovery audit contractors.
Reacting to their findings that most young physicians surveyed in France have a Facebook profile, U.S. medical ethics researchers said social networking may compromise physicians' relationships with patients, according to a study on the Journal of Medical Ethics.