As the hospital industry enters its second year since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, more organizations have accepted or are beginning to implement the law’s principles and philosophies. Terms like “team-based care” are no longer…
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If the supercommittee and Congress refuse to increase taxes as part of the deficit reduction plan, both Medicare and Medicaid could succumb to cuts so large that their missions of helping the aged, disabled and poor obtain equitable healthcare will…
Recovery audit contractors have been around the healthcare landscape for a while, but a recent blog post by J. Paul Spencer on The RAConteur looked to see if RACs are performing enough "provider outreach sessions."
Cleveland-based MetroHealth System will eliminate 104 jobs and will not fill 151 vacant positions by next week as part of its job-cuts plan announced at the end of September, according to a MetroHealth news release.
Wisconsin hospitals created roughly $28 billion annually in economic activity in 2010, and they contributed $1.4 billion in community benefits, according to a Wisconsin Hospital Association news release.
The average base salary for a typical chief nursing information officer is about $200,000 to $250,000, up from about $175,000 a year ago, according to Witt-Kieffer survey cited in an InformationWeek report.
Health insurer Highmark, based in Pittsburgh, has posted the results of its pay-for-performance program from fiscal year 2011, according to a company news release. Highmark launched its Quality BLUE pay-for-performance program in 2002 with six hospitals. By fiscal year 2011,…
Montgomery, Ala.-based Baptist Health has formed an agreement to acquire Montgomery Cancer Center, according to a health system news release. Under the agreement, Baptist will acquire MCC, Montgomery Breast Center and Carmichael Imaging. MCC includes 13 physicians. The acquisition does…
Novi, Mich.-based Trinity Health has signed a letter of intent to acquire Mercy Hospital & Medical Center in Chicago, according to a Crain’s Chicago Business report. The two organizations have held informal merger discussions for about a year, according to…
Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare in Louisville, Ky., has agreed to pay $435,502 to settle claims that it overbilled Medicare from 2006-2010, according to a Business First report. Federal officials contended that JHSMH improperly charged Medicare for outpatient wound-care…