It's a confusing situation for patients and a financially necessary one for hospitals: If a hospital cannot decide whether a patient is appropriate for inpatient admission, the patient can be kept up to 48 hours under "observation" while the hospital…
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Anthem Blue Cross of New Hampshire has rejected a proposed contract with Exeter (N.H.) Hospital that asked for less than a 3 percent rate increase, which the hospital attributed to the increased cost of services provided, according to an Exeter…
Kentuckiana Medical Center, a 34-bed physician owned hospital in Clarksville, Ind., has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization but will remain open, according to a Courier-Journal report.
The Oregon Department of Human Services has denied a proposal by the Columbia (County) Health District for a 12-bed hospital in St. Helens, Ore., according to a report by The Oregonian.
La Crosse, Wis.-based Franciscan Skemp Healthcare - Mayo Health System, the system of hospitals and clinics operated by Mayo Clinic throughout Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa, will be renamed Mayo Clinic Health System, according to a La Crosse Tribune report.
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Even though provider-owned health insurance plans have been seeing declines in profits and membership, providers have stopped selling them off and may even decide to create new ones, according to a release by A.M. Best Co.
Reviewing proprietary data on clients, the Healthcare Management Council compared hospitals and health systems that broke even or made money on Medicare with those that did not, then pinpointed just where the model group saved money. John Whittlesey, a Boston-based…
HHS has awarded $130.8 million to strengthen the nation's healthcare workforce, according to a release by the Hill.
Companies regularly spend a lot of money on advertising campaigns that fail to understand their audience's needs. Here Dan Weinbach, executive vice president of The Weinbach Group, discusses four marketing mistakes your hospital may be making and how to fix…
Recent studies by CareChex, a division of The Delta Group specializing in rating the quality of hospital and physician care, reveals broad disparities in healthcare quality among states and surprisingly found no correlations between quality of care and patient satisfaction,…