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.
Leadership & Management
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.
Hospitals around the country have been forced to announce mass layoffs to cut costs, according to recent reports.
For years hospital executives have been employing a variety of leadership philosophies in working with their leadership teams, physicians and staff to improve patient outcomes, optimize operational processes and maximize financial returns. Evidenced based medicine and clinical protocol development, six…
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As 2011 approaches, hospitals are preparing for massive physician and nurse shortages. Here David Alexander, president of healthcare staffing firm Soliant, discusses five trends that will affect healthcare staffing over the next few years.
Allegations of fraud by Solantic, a chain of Florida urgent care clinics owned in part by Florida Republican Gubernatorial Candidate and former HCA CEO Rick Scott, have been forwarded to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for possible…
A recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggests that full disclosure of medical errors resulted in a decrease in compensation claims, including lawsuits, and reduced liability costs, according to a University of Michigan news release.
Former employees of now-closed St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan have filed a lawsuit saying hospital executives bankrupted the hospital through financial mismanagement, including executive salaries of more than $1 million each, extravagant executive outings and $17 million for management consultants,…
San Antonio-based University Health System's board of directors approved plans to ask for a 3.8 percent property tax rate increase from members of the public hospital system's district in order to pay off a bond sale needed to finance a…