The price to consumers for hospital services dropped 0.5 percent in July, the first decline since Aug. 2005, according to a report by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
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The University of Texas Board of Regents has approved an $800 million hospital at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas to replace University Hospital - St. Paul, according to a Dallas Morning News report.
A recently released survey hospitals in the Philadelphia area shows bad debt from insured patients grew by 28 percent from fiscal 2007 to fiscal 2008, more than twice as fast as total growth of bad debt, according to a report…
Ideally, says David Witt, CFO of CHRISTUS St John Hospital, billing errors should be resolved at the bedside, long before financial people get involved. But it is hard for clinical people to think in financial terms. This is because in…
Section 6003 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public Law 111-148 (H.R. 3590) makes a change to the "in-office ancillary services" exception to the Stark physician self-referral law that impacts physician practices providing certain radiology services in their…
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Wellesley, Mass.-based Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, which insurers patients throughout New England, has announced it will move toward using global payments in contracts with healthcare providers, according to a Boston Business Journal report.
Cambridge (Mass). Health Alliance, which manages Cambridge Hospital, Somerville Hospital and Whidden Memorial Hospital, is seeking a partner for an affiliation or acquisition, according to a Boston Globe report.
The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled that three competing hospital operators must resubmit proposals for the right to develop a hospital in Fort Mill, according to a report by the Charlotte Observer.
CMS has approved medical necessity review audits by recovery audit contractors, according to a report by AHA News Now.
Boca Raton (Fla.) Community Hospital has announced a $500,000 profit for the 2009-2010 fiscal year, making 2009-2010 the hospital's first profitable year since 2006, according to a Palm Beach Post report.