A judge has dismissed a 2008 lawsuit filed by Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura, Calif., that claimed an attorney and accountants covered up the former CEO’s alleged financial impropriety, according to a Ventura County Star report. Ventura County Superior Court…
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Last week, CMS approved California's plans to reduce Medicaid rates by 10 percent for physicians and providers, and the repercussions could be far-reaching and deep for several hospitals across the state.
Healthcare and consumer advocates in Maine recently objected to Republican Gov. Paul LePage's plan to house the state's health insurance exchange within a state department, fearing that politics would become too entrenched within the exchange, according to a Maine Public…
Hospitalist salaries rose roughly 2.6 percent on average from 2009 to 2010, and a recent compensation survey showed that hospitalist salaries grew again by an average of more than 8 percent from 2010 to 2011, according to a Today's Hospitalist…
Naples, Fla.-based Health Management Associates is looking to borrow up to $3.7 billion in new loans to refinance some of its debt, according to an HMA news release.
CMS released its final rule on the hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System for the 2012 calendar year, and Medicare payment rates for hospitals under the OPPS will increase by an average of 1.9 percent.
Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora, Ill., has completed a $7.5 million update to its cancer center, according to a Beacon-News report.
Bayfront Medical Center in St. Petersburg, Fla., is ending its outpatient radiation and chemotherapy programs due to an emerging trend of private physicians' offices offering these services and because the programs were losing money, according to a St. Petersburg Times…
HHS has launched a Leading Health Indicators App Challenge to develop a tool that can help communities track their health, according to an HHS report.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is planning to collect information from consumers on their privacy and security concerns regarding mobile health technology, according to a Federal Register report.