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.
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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.
The share prices for hospital operators rose yesterday after a Senate cloture vote moved the $16 billion Medicaid extension package closer to a vote, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
A recent study by the Commonfund found that the average fiscal year 2009 return on investable assets for non-profit healthcare organizations was 18.8 percent, a dramatic improvement of the 21.2 percent loss reported for fiscal year 2008, according to a…
The introduction of "accountable care organizations" in the health reform law allows Medicare to provide incentives for healthcare providers to lower costs, raise quality of care and improve efficiency at their organizations. The idea is simple: If physicians and hospitals…
Buried in Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a section entitled simply, "Additional Requirements For Charitable Hospitals." This section revokes a charitable hospital's tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 if the hospital fails…