Jacksonville, Fla.-based Baptist Health's five hospitals will stop accepting Humana Medicare HMO enrollees beginning Jan. 1, 2011, according to a St. Augustine Record report.
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A report following a six-month investigation by a Miami-Dade County (Fla.) grand jury calls Jackson Health System a "colossal mess" and urges the public hospital to explore a new governing system, according to a Miami Herald report.
Gilbert (Arizona) Hospital has begun construction on a second facility in Florence, Ariz., according to an Arizona Republic report.
With consumer healthcare fraud occurring at increasingly high rates, the federal government has responded by enacting regulations to reduce such fraud. One regulation with this aim is the Red Flags Rules, an initiative set to go into effect on Dec.…
The Boards of Trustees for Medicare and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have released the yearly reports to Congress on the financial operations and actuarial status of Medicare, according to a news release by CMS.
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The Greenville (S.C.) Hospital System will pay at least $35 million over the next decade to help the University of South Carolina expand its Greenville medical school, according to a report by The State.
Central Texas-based Scott & White Healthcare is planning a 58,000-square-foot expansion project for Round Rock (Texas) Hospital, which will include renovating an additional 14,000 square feet of the hospital campus, according to a Community Impact Newspaper report.
Facing a flood of uninsured patients, many hospitals are turning to outside vendors to help enroll these patients in Medicaid and avoid writing them off as bad debts.St. Elizabeth Healthcare in Kentucky, for example, uses Firstsource, the new name for…
Gilbert D'Andria, vice president of B2B and payor technologies at MedAssets explains how the company's Episode of Care Bundled Reimbursement Solution handles bundled reimbursements.
Using physicians to triage ED visitors when they arrive has reduced wait times and relieved ED overcrowding at Methodist Medical Center in Peoria, Ill., according to Tony Howard, administrative director of the Methodist ED.