Leadership & Management

Kelley Blair, vice president of professional services at Craneware, identifies five key sources of revenue leakage.

A new study comparing payments by Medicare and private insurers for healthcare services in Texas posits that utilization management for Medicare may not be as strict as for private payors, according to a release by Health Affairs.

Hospitals reported 8,000 payroll additions in November and 42,200 so far in 2010, doubling the jobs created in the same time period last year, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

CMS has awarded nine North Shore-LIJ Health System hospitals more than $814,000 through its national pay-for-performance Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration project, according to a system news release.

Maryland hospitals will be rewarded for reducing unnecessary readmissions in a new payment program developed by the Maryland Health Services Cost Review Commission, according to a report by Kaiser Health News.

The following is an excerpt from Lancaster Pollard's "White Paper III for Community Hospitals & Systems." A full version of the white paper can be viewed here. Large hospitals and multi-hospital systems are on the forefront of healthcare delivery, employing…

West Penn Allegheny CEO Christopher Olivia, MD, told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review he believes University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is trying put West Penn out of business by monopolizing the marketplace.

Adventist Medical Center-Hanford (Calif.) has officially opened and begun treating patients, according to a Fresno Bee report.

Le Bonheur Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., has relocated to a new, $340 million, 255-bed facility, according to a news release by the hospital.

Recovery Audit Contractors that exceed the 60-day limit to review records are subject to weak penalties that RACs can easily ignore, according to a blog by J. Paul Spencer at Fi-Med.