Janesville, Wis.-based Mercy Health System has filed a certificate of need to construct a new, 128-bed hospital in Crystal Lake, according to a Northwest Herald report.
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An investigation into the Indian Health Service by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, reveals a health system in a "chronic state of crisis" and suffering from "chronic mismanagement," according to a KCCI report.
Preventable hospitalizations in California cost more than $3.5 billion in 2008, despite a 6.8 percent decline from 1999-2008, according to the report by California’s Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. Preventable hospitalizations, or those that could have been avoided…
The Tennessee Hospital Association may ask incoming Gov. Bill Haslam and state lawmakers to extend, and possibly increase, the hospital assessment fee that helped the state avoid making more than $700 million in TennCare cuts this year, according to a…
Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center has filed a petition with the New Jersey Department of Health to re-open Pascack Valley Hospital in Westwood, N.J., according to a North Jersey report.
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Beckley, W.Va.-based Appalachian Regional Healthcare has filed suit against the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources over allegedly inadequate Medicaid reimbursement rates, according to a press release by the health system.
House Republicans' new plan to repeal the healthcare reform law specifically overrides Congressional "pay-go" requirements against adding to the federal deficit, according to a report by the Hill.
The following hospital expansion or renovation plans were among the largest announced or completed in 2010 and covered by Becker’s Hospital Review. 1. Scripps Health in California Begins $2B, 25-Year Rebuilding PlanIn November, Scripps Health in San Diego announced a…
Here are five significant trends that affected hospital employment in 2010.
Incorporating new data from the third quarter of 2010, the AHA's RACTrac survey of participating hospitals made the following findings about denials by Medicare recovery audit contractors in the first three quarters of 2010.