A U.S. District Court Judge has said the Court has jurisdiction to hear a case challenging health reform law's ban on new physician-owned hospitals and expansions of existing facilities, according to a news release from Physician Hospitals of America and…
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Raleigh, N.C.-based WakeMed Health & Hospitals has filed a public records request for documents related to UNC Health Care, Rex Healthcare and other subsidiaries, according to a Bloomberg Businessweek report.
A report by the Rhode Island Department of Health found that while the financial performance of acute-care hospitals in the state improved as a whole in 2009, all six of the state's independent hospitals continued to show struggling financials, according…
Nurses at two HCA-owned hospitals in Florida — Osceola Regional Medical Center in Kissimmee, Fla., and Central Florida Regional Hospital in Sanford, Fla. — voted in November to unionize, according to a Nashville Business Journal report.
Real-time location systems are an IT solution that has been adopted in many different industries, including the military and healthcare industry, as a way to improve asset management. Specifically in the healthcare setting, RTLS may be installed to better track…
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On Oct. 1, 2013, ICD-10-CM (clinical modification) and ICD-10-PCS (procedural coding system) will be implemented into the HIPAA mandated code, increasing the number of codes from around 13,600 under ICD-9 to around 69,000 under ICD-10. While ICD-9 codes are mostly…
Three South Dakota health systems have agreed to pay the government a total of $389,000 for overbilling Medicare for treatments that exceeded federal regulations, according to an Argus Leader news report.
Virginia Health Information has released its 2010 Industry Report: Virginia Hospital & Nursing Facilities, a study that contains efficiency rankings of Virginia healthcare facilities, along with information on provider costs, profits and charity care, according to a VHI news release.
Once again, the Senate has defeated separate partisan bills to ease tax-reporting requirements for small businesses under the healthcare reform law, according to a report by The Hill.
A federal appeals court reinstated Pittsburgh-based West Penn Allegheny Health System's antitrust lawsuit against University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and regional insurer Highmark yesterday after it was dismissed by a U.S. District judge more than a year ago, according to…