Forbes recently released a list of the 25 most profitable hospitals in America, 24 of which have profit margins of 25 percent or more.
Leadership & Management
Following authorization from CMS on Aug. 6 to begin medical necessity reviews of 18 types of medical conditions, three Medicare recovery audit contractors have announced the start of such review, according to AHA News Now.
Philip Vaidyan, MD, director of hospital medicine in the department of internal medicine at St. Mary's Health Center in St. Louis and practice group leader with IPC The Hospitalist Company, shares five best practices that have helped the hospitalist unit…
Many of the 32 million Americans set to receive health insurance for the first time have historically used the emergency department in place of a primary care provider. John Fontanetta, MD, chairman of the emergency department at Clara Maass Medical…
Non-profit hospitals like Adventist Health System in Orlando actually make substantial profits and get to keep them in return for providing a "community benefit," according to the Washington Post, in an article originally published in the Orlando Sentinel.
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More than 50 million Americans are on Medicaid, up at least 17 percent since the recession began in Dec. 2007, according to a survey of state data by USA Today.
The California Senate has approved legislation that would reimburse a new private hospital in south Los Angeles County for Medi-Cal inpatient services at 60 percent of cost, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
As CFO and senior vice president of finance of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Edward Prunchunas is tasked with keeping the renowned hospital financially stable and providing patients with a sound, understandable billing process. During his tenure at the…
Even as hospitals across the country increase their focus on reducing costs through job cuts and other efforts, they may be losing money in unexpected places. Here Andy Day, managing principle of the Hospital of the Future team in GE…
The AHA is urging HHS to withdraw final regulatory language on payments for out-of-network providers of ED care in the healthcare reform law, according to a report by AHA News Now.