Two maintenance managers employed by Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Fla., have been charged with accepting at least $625,000 in kickbacks from inflated invoices filed by contracted vendors, according to a Sun Sentinel news report.
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Kevin Troutman, JD, chair of the national healthcare practice at Fisher & Phillips, discusses five issues affecting hospital employment over the next few years.
The following article is a white paper from QHR, reprinted with permission. The number of Federally Qualified Health Centers in the United States — and the comprehensiveness of services they provide — are on the rise and should skyrocket in…
The Maryland Health Care Commission is expected to rule next month on a certificate of need request for a new hospital in Montgomery County, ending a years-long battle between two health systems vying to build in the area, according to…
Nurses at Oak Hill Hospital in Brooksville, Fla., have voted to unionize, making Oak Hill the sixth HCA-owned hospital in the state with unionized nurses, according to a release by National Nurses United.
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Results from the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration suggest that providing financial incentives to hospitals for quality measures leads to increased quality, according to a CMS news release.
William Hamman, a pilot from Michigan, fooled the American Medical Association, hospitals and physicians into thinking he was a physician with proper medical training for almost 20 years, according to a Washington Post report.
Even though Tenet Healthcare Corp. immediately rejected an offer from Community Health Systems to buy the Dallas-based system, the takeover bid may not be over yet, according to a report by the Dallas Morning News.
Here are the CEOS of 16 leading acute-care, for-profit hospital companies operating in the United States.
In the first ruling striking down the mandate to buy individual insurance in the healthcare reform law, a federal judge in Virginia said Congress does not have the power to require Americans to carry health insurance or pay a fine,…