It goes without saying that the new healthcare reform law will have far-reaching implications on hospitals across the country. With many provisions in the healthcare reform law scheduled to take effect in 2011, hospitals and physicians need to refocus their…
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A multispecialty practice will stop sending patients to St. Peter’s Hospital in Helena, Mont., because the group refuses to pay an extra fee for hospitalists to cover its patients, according to a report by the Helena Independent Record.
Rhode Island hospital group Care New England has reached an out-of-court settlement with Christopher Koller, the state health insurance commissioner, according to a Providence Journal report. CNE, which oversees three hospitals, filed a lawsuit over Mr. Koller’s new insurance rules…
Two maintenance managers employed by Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Fla., have been charged with accepting at least $625,000 in kickbacks from inflated invoices filed by contracted vendors, according to a Sun Sentinel news report.
Kevin Troutman, JD, chair of the national healthcare practice at Fisher & Phillips, discusses five issues affecting hospital employment over the next few years.
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The following article is a white paper from QHR, reprinted with permission. The number of Federally Qualified Health Centers in the United States — and the comprehensiveness of services they provide — are on the rise and should skyrocket in…
The Maryland Health Care Commission is expected to rule next month on a certificate of need request for a new hospital in Montgomery County, ending a years-long battle between two health systems vying to build in the area, according to…
Nurses at Oak Hill Hospital in Brooksville, Fla., have voted to unionize, making Oak Hill the sixth HCA-owned hospital in the state with unionized nurses, according to a release by National Nurses United.
Results from the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration suggest that providing financial incentives to hospitals for quality measures leads to increased quality, according to a CMS news release.
William Hamman, a pilot from Michigan, fooled the American Medical Association, hospitals and physicians into thinking he was a physician with proper medical training for almost 20 years, according to a Washington Post report.