Kevin E. Lofton is president and CEO of Denver-based Catholic Health Initiatives, the third-largest Catholic Healthcare system in the nation, with $9 billion in annual revenue and 73 hospitals. Here Mr. Lofton explores key issues for hospitals such as healthcare…
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Healthcare providers and suppliers participating in Premier's Global Location Number Transaction Program are demonstrating how data standardization can improve the quality, safety and cost-effectiveness of care, according to a news release.
CMS has released a proposed rule on value-based purchasing, which involves paying hospitals for performance on quality measures, according to a release by CMS.
Jeff Peters, president of Surgical Directions in Chicago, says when he helped a financially struggling ambulatory surgery center apply the following four surgeon-friendly changes, volume increased by 17 percent. "Surgeons went from 'Do I really want to go there?' to…
An internal investigation by Detroit Medical Center before its sale to Vanguard Health Systems uncovered potentially improper relationships between the health system and more than 250 physicians, according to a Crain's Detroit Business report.
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Though recovery audit contractors have been focusing on hospitals as the big fish, they have been auditing practices, too, and have even been scrutinizing E/M codes, according to Frank Cohen, a process improvement analyst for practices, based in Clearwater, Fla.
Fourteen percent of patient suicides occur in non-psychiatric settings, and more than half of those occur in the emergency department, according to an Internal Medicine News report and a Joint Commission study.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., takes on the largest portion of uncompensated care in the city — $173,045,893 worth in 2009 — according to a Nashville Business Journal report. Warren Beck, VUMC’s senior vice president of finance, said…
The following hospitals and healthcare systems recently announced layoffs and job cuts. Faxton St. Luke’s Healthcare in Utica, N.Y., eliminated 52 full- and part-time positions, including the layoffs of 24 employees and the elimination of 28 vacant positions, according to…
Rockville, Md.-based Adventist HealthCare is appealing a recommendation by the chair of the Maryland Health Care Commission to grant Silver Spring, Md.-based Holy Cross Hospital approval to develop a new hospital in Montgomery County over Adventist, according to a Washington…