William C. McGinly, president and CEO of the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy, provides 12 tips for hospital fundraising efforts, based on AHP surveys and other input.
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A new study said one in five defibrillators are implanted in patients who don’t meet recommended guidelines, and complications and deaths are more frequent in those patients, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Seven hospitals have agreed to pay the United States more than $6.3 million to settle allegations that they submitted false claims to Medicare related to kyphoplasty procedures performed between 2000 and 2008, according to a U.S. Department of Justice release.
The AHA spent $4.3 million lobbying the federal government in at least six areas in the third quarter of 2010, a slight increase over the second quarter and an 11 percent rise over the third quarter of 2009, according to…
The new Republican-controlled House of Representatives has scheduled a vote to repeal the healthcare reform law on Jan. 12, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal Health Wire.
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Hospitals are invited to submit data to the American Hospital Association's RACTrac survey by Jan. 14 on the impact of Medicare's Recovery Audit Contractor program and to attend a Jan. 5 webinar about the survey, according to a report by…
Rebecca Parrett, who served as an executive at healthcare financing company National Century Financial Enterprise, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for her role in a $1.9 billion corporate fraud scheme that included securities fraud, wire fraud and…
The number of emergency department visits that involved a computed tomography examination increased from 2.7 million to 16.2 million between 1995 and 2007, according to a study published in the Jan. 2011 issue of Radiology.
Keep current. Familiarize yourself with eight of the most relevant provisions in last year's healthcare reform law that went into effect Jan. 1.
Shortly after selling to for-profit Vanguard Health Systems, Detroit Medical Center is expected to announce the first $60 million out of $850 million in construction contracts today, according to a Crain’s Detroit Business report. Approximately 20 projects will be completed…