Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Wash., will begin construction on an emergency department expansion that will cost the hospital $18.6 million, according to a hospital news release.
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A Wisconsin physician has been accused of revealing a patient's HIV test results to the patient's mother without first obtaining consent, according to a Wisconsin State Journal report.
Tim Pike, DO, has been appointed CMO of Portsmouth (N.H.) Regional Hospital, according to a hospital news release.
This year has been a noteworthy year for physicians and hospitals, and the key structural drivers of change will continue into 2012. Accountable care organizations were declared "the party that nobody comes to," payors began to buy physicians and hold…
CMS has clarified the situations in which a pharmacy can bill for dispensing certain drugs, according to an AAPC release.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and Health 2.0 have launched a contest for developers to use the popHealth tool to create an app that would allow healthcare providers to access more information about their patient populations,…
Healthcare attorneys who represent University of Pittsburgh Medical Center physicians said many of their clients think their salaries could get cut if UPMC does not renew its contract with health insurer Highmark, according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report.
A Baltimore law firm lost the medical records of 161 patients suing cardiologist Mark G. Midei, MD, according to a York Daily Record report.
Oregon hospitals reported more than $1.5 billion in community benefit expenses in 2009, and about $1.2 million of that was for charity care and other public programs, according to a report from the Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research…
Knoxville, Tenn.-based Tennova Healthcare and health insurer UnitedHealthcare have agreed to a new contract that expands coverage to individual and employer-based health plans, according to a Knoxville News Sentinel report.