Hospitals in Illinois will receive one-time payments totaling $120 million from the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family as part of an effort to accelerate payments to hospitals that provide Medicaid services so that the state is eligible for higher…
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The final CMS physician fee schedule for 2011 contains a 10 percent increase for all primary care physicians and for general surgeons in shortage areas, according to a report by the American Medical News.
Bob Gift, a director at IMA Consulting in Chadds Ford, Pa., offers four tips on making hospital departments more efficient.
The AHA and five other national hospital associations have filed a legal brief against a multi-state lawsuit challenging the healthcare reform law's plan to expand the pool of paying patients through a mandate to buy insurance and an expansion of…
Properly constructed stipend agreements between hospitals and anesthesia groups can produce important benefits for both parties. Anesthesia practices gain additional revenue which, among other things, can help defray costs associated with expanded coverage requirements. Hospitals, meanwhile, are assured of reliable,…
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The article below is reprinted with permission from The Capital Issue, a quarterly newsletter published by Lancaster Pollard. Several years of physician and community outreach have improved the transparency of Beatrice Community Hospital’s care delivery and finances, inviting more…
The Alliance of Specialty Medicine is questioning proposed changes in Medicare reimbursements in the recent draft report of the federal Debt Commission, according to a release from the Alliance.
Citing underpayment, a hospital has filed a lawsuit against the West Virginia Medicaid program, a network of community health centers is planning another lawsuit and a health system has stopped treating patients in the program, according to a report by…
Nurses at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C., have authorized a one-day strike on Nov. 24, according to a Washington Post report.
Construction will soon begin on a new 36-bed hospital, Florence Hospital at Anthem, in Florence, Ariz., according to a Blade-Tribune report.