The baby boomer generation, which starts turning 65 on Jan. 1, threatens to bankrupt the Medicare program, according to a report by the Wisconsin Rapids Tribune.
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A Mississippi county judge has ruled against Jackson, Miss.-based St. Dominic Hospital's plans to relocate 71 beds from its Jackson campus to a new, $121 million facility in Madison, Miss., according to a Sun Herald report.
Although almost 6 million people are thought to be eligible for state-run preexisting condition insurance plans set up under the healthcare reform law, HHS said only 8,011 people were signed up as of Nov. 1, according to a report by…
Anesthesiologist Scott D. Augustine, MD, has told hospitals to stop using a device he invented during certain operations, suggesting it may pose a danger to patients, according to a New York Times report.
After several years of down employment, healthcare industry hiring is up again, though the pace of new jobs remains far lower than a few years ago, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius provided an update on progress made in implementing the Affordable Care Act, nine months since it was signed into law, according to a Lake County News report.
A new Harvard study in the New England Journal of Medicine found wide disparities among four common measures of hospital mortality rates, putting into question their use to measure hospital quality, according to a release from Harvard Medical School.
Brian Felici, former CEO of hospital parent company Ohio Valley Health Services & Education Corp., has sued the corporation and American Healthcare Solutions, a third-party company hired to support the hospitals' finances, for alleged breach of contract and fraud, according…
Dennis Jones, director compliance services for CBIZ KA Consulting Services, based in East Windsor, N.J., identifies six issues for hospitals in dealing with recovery audit contractors in 2011.
John D. Archbold Memorial Hospital in Thomasville, Ga., has paid $13.9 million to settle allegations it violated the False Claims Act by misrepresenting its Medicaid status, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.