Leadership & Management

The Senate passed a one-month Medicare physician fee fix, and the House is expected to vote on the measure by Nov. 30, the day before the automatic 23 percent cut would go into effect, according to a report by The…

More hospitals are joining the social media revolution. Here are five hospitals that have innovatively used social media to add value to their organization.

Paul Spencer, compliance officer for Fi-Med Management in Wauwatosa, Wis., offers seven points on the upcoming implementation of the Medicaid RAC program.  

The article below is reprinted with permission from The Capital Issue, a quarterly newsletter published by Lancaster Pollard. Finding financing is no passive activity. Many factors impact whether a project gets to the closing table, with some of the biggest…

Sumter, S.C.-based Tuomey Hospital has filed a petition for an appellate court's review of a district court ruling that calls for the retrial of a false claims lawsuit against the hospital that was originally cleared by a federal jury earlier…

Charles "Chip" Kahn III, president of the Federation of American Hospitals, is a quintessential Washington insider, having played a key role in defeating President Clinton's health reform plan in 1993. But as head of the federation, which represents for-profit hospitals,…

A recently study by the Center for Studying Health System Change suggests that hospitals use market clout to negotiate higher-than-competitive prices, which causes price variation that is inconsistent with what is found in other industries within competitive markets, according to…

Nurses at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C., have canceled their plans to strike, according to a Washington Post report.

The Kentucky Hospital Association has filed suit against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services over a recent change in its policy regarding provider taxes and critical access hospitals, according to an AHA News Now report.

Growth in the average total health benefit cost per employee rose 6.9 percent in 2010 to $9,562, the biggest increase since 2004, according to a survey by Mercer.