Health insurers expect healthcare costs to increase by 10.5-11 percent, with the health care reform law projected to add 2-5 percent over the next three years, according to a survey by Aon Consulting.
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Florida Hospital in Orlando and United Healthcare have agreed to a four-year contract after extending their deadline of midnight last night by two hours, according to an Orlando Sentinel report.
Several leaders of the nation's largest health insurers have said they plan to get even tougher in contract negotiations with hospitals as they try to reign in medical costs, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report.
The Healthcare Management Council, which offers advice on enhancing operational performance for healthcare organizations, asked nurses in an online survey to reveal which activities were the biggest time-wasters. Here are the results, ranked by the percentage of nurses who selected…
Healthcare organizations have to become increasingly effective and efficient not only to thrive, but just to survive, under healthcare reform. In return for an additional 32 million insured Americans, hospitals agreed a $155 billion cut in reimbursements over 10 years,…
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The former chief financial officer of Gainesville, Fla.-based H.C. Healthcare, which owns and operates Jasper, Fla.-based Trinity Community Hospital, has been arrested in Illinois for her involvement in a fraud scheme, according to a Gainesville Sun report.
Across the country, many community hospitals are evolving into regional referral centers. However, the plans for doing so often ignore the core implications of becoming a regional referral center and, instead, describe it in terms of volumes, which are out…
As the healthcare industry enters a period of major change, hospital administrators must prepare for a number of major challenges — including reimbursement cuts, EMR implementation, stricter compliance measures, new models of care, an influx of insured patients and more…
A study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests that although medical journals traditionally require authors to disclose their ties to industry companies, orthopedic specialists that received more than $1 million were not always transparent about their corporate relationships…
Taking a closer look at the recent Annual Report of the Medicare Board of Trustees, a Wall Street Journal opinion piece by two critics of the healthcare reform law predicted it would "gut" the Medicare program, significantly cut payments to…