A new coverage option launched by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts will encourage consumers to avoid 15 high-cost hospitals by increasing co-payments for services at these facilities dramatically, according to a Patriot Ledger report.
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St. John's Mercy Health Care and St. John's Health System, both based in St. Louis, have agreed to pay $2.2 million to settle allegations that foot clinics at St. John's hospitals overbilled Medicare, according to a News-Leaders news report.
St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan in New York, which filed for bankruptcy and closed this spring, may soon go up for sale, according to a New York Times report.
More than a dozen Republican governors-elect told GOP Congressional leaders they want more freedom to administer state programs like Medicaid and vowed to help them overturn the healthcare reform law, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
West Penn Allegheny Health System in Pittsburgh sustained a $3.6 million operating loss in the first quarter of its fiscal year, but actually recorded several million dollars in profit for the quarter as a result of the sale of its…
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Hospitals in Recovery Audit Contractor Region B, which roughly corresponds with the Midwest, were more successful in appealing RAC decisions than hospitals in the three other RAC regions, according to a report by the Ohio Hospital Association.
In its final draft report, yet to be voted on by members, the federal deficit commission proposes long-sought reforms like ending the automatic Medicare physician fee-cut but also suggests cuts like lowering teaching hospital payments and putting hospitals under the…
The following hospitals and health systems announced layoffs or job cuts in November.
A Manhattan judge has prevented New York City’s public hospitals from laying off 150 electricians, carpenters and laborers, ruling that the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation failed to employ sound methodology in the cuts, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
Care New England, a hospital group based in Providence, R.I., filed a lawsuit yesterday in effort to stop new health insurance rules meant to control hospital costs, according to a Providence Journal report.