Leadership & Management

With looming provider shortages, hospitals need to reconsider management strategies now more than ever. Here are four considerations for implementing lean management in a hospital system, along with evidence of how lean management transformed the nursing staff of Covenant Hospital…

Hospitals across the nation are reporting increases in uncompensated, or "charity" care, and some are implementing budget cuts to curb the debt.

A survey of emergency department directors showed high levels of inadequate coverage for several surgical specialties, according to a release by the American College of Emergency Physicians.

Lawmakers in Florida are considering using a cap on malpractice awards to lure physicians into the state's low-paying Medicaid program, according to a report by the Palm Beach Post.

Health insurers with policies requiring preauthorization permission delays or interrupts patient access to care, according to the results of an American Medical Association survey.

The following issues were recently approved by Medicare's recovery audit contractors program.

Recent postings of approved review issues by Connolly Healthcare, the recovery audit contractor for Medicare Region C, are part of a "continuing a pattern of confusing and incomplete information," according to a report by HIM on Call.

In a letter to CMS, the AHA and other nationwide hospital organizations recommended at least seven ways to restructure the agency's value-based purchasing program to assess hospital performance and reward them with incentive payments.

Here is a summary of the third quarter 2010 financial results for six leading for-profit, acute-care hospital operators.

Most health policy experts say few, if any, of the proposed healthcare cost cuts from the co-chairs of President Obama's deficit commission could gain approval by the full panel, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.