Leadership & Management

CMS has issued a transmittal outlining the changes made to the 2010 Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Outpatient Prospective Payment System as a result of health reform.

Automated systems can give a hospital a great deal of insight into many aspects of the revenue cycle by providing metrics to monitor the performance of the entire cycle, from beginning to end. It is important to review these metrics…

Advanced Surgical Hospital of Washington (County) in North Franklin, Pa., has opened, according to a Pittsburgh Business Times report.

A study by Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tenn., showed a shortage of healthcare workers who are not physicians or nurses, according to a report by the Nashville Business Journal.

In the aftermath of healthcare reform, Chicago-area hospitals are looking to find ways to level with President Obama's new healthcare plans, according to a report by Crain's Chicago Business.

Mehmet Oz, MD, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Columbia University Medical Center who is a television personality and best selling author, toured Gaston Memorial Hospital in Gastonia, N.C., as part of a new partnership between the two organizations.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan will begin requiring primary care physicians practicing in and around Rapid City, Mich., who do not hold hospital privileges to obtain a written guarantee from Rapid City Regional Hospital's hospitalist program guaranteeing their patients…

A survey by the Iowa Hospital Association of all hospitals in the state found that Iowa hospitals provided community benefits during fiscal year 2009 valued at more than $1.2 billion, according to an IHA news release.   

The Illinois Hospital Association has hired Kimberly C. Parker as vice president of federal relations. She will be the first federal lobbyist to be employed by the IHA, according to an IHA news release.

Ohio Hospitals will receive an additional $87 million from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to help further reimburse the hospitals for the hospital assessments they now pay to the state to fund its Medicaid rolls, according to a…