The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will begin validating hospital outpatient quality data in late August or early September in order to determine 2011 annual payment updates, according to an AHA News Now report.
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The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors is expected to approve a plan by Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health to build an 82-bed, $284 million hospital in Santa Rosa, Calif., according to a North Bay Business Journal report.
Hospitals are increasingly focused on tracking financial data to determine where money is wasted and where costs can be cut. Here, Stephen Mooney, president of revenue cycle solutions at Conifer Health Solutions, discusses three of the most important statistics hospitals…
Although all hospitals are affected by declining reimbursements, looming "meaningful use" requirements and physician shortages, rural hospitals are often hit the hardest. Brock Slabach, senior vice president for member services at the National Rural Health Association, discusses three challenges facing…
Modoc Medical Center, a county-owned hospital in rural Alturas, Calif., is currently negotiating two loans from the state totaling $16.5 million to keep its doors open and is also considering filing for bankruptcy, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
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America's Health Insurance Plans, a trade group of health insurers, spent $2.3 million on lobbying in the second quarter of 2010, which covers the three months immediately following the passing of healthcare reform at the end of March, according to…
Nurses at two hospitals in Duluth, Minn., have voted to approve a one-day strike after union and hospital representatives were unable to agree on a contract, according to a Minnesota Nurses Association news release.
Boca Raton (Fla.) Community Hospital, which opened in 1969, will change its name to Boca Raton Regional Hospital to reflect the hospital's development into a larger, more specialized hospital, according to a Palm Beach Post report.
Youngstown, Ohio-based Forum Health has agreed to pay nearly $2.9 million to reimburse the government for overbilling Medicare from 2003 to 2009, according to a report by The Vindicator.
Troy Roth, vice president of revenue-cycle product strategy for MedAssets, discusses how hospitals can calculate how much is owed by patients with high-deductible policies.