The cost of Medicaid fraud audits is five times more than the amount of overpayments they identify, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office.
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Steven Gabbe, MD, has served as CEO of Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus and senior vice president of health sciences at Ohio State University since April 2008.
Hundreds of unionized hospital workers in Philadelphia have voted to strike July 1 if a contract agreement is not reached by that time, according to a Philadelphia Inquirer report.
The American Society of Anesthesiologists is calling for participation in its tenth annual survey of commercial payment rates, a questionnaire for practice or billing managers.
Older age and residence in a nursing home are among the risk factors for death from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, according to a study in CDC's Emerging Infectious Diseases journal.
A one-year-old pilot accountable care organization between Louisville, Ky.-based Norton Healthcare and health insurer Humana is increasing utilization of appropriate clinical laboratory testing and improving patient outcomes, according to a Business First report.
Hospital admissions for orthopedic implantable medical devices increased from 2003 through 2009, according to a Government Accountability Office report (pdf).
Physician salaries remained relatively flat — and in many cases negative — in 2011, as the average net compensation change across 20 different specialties was -1.7 percent, according to the latest physician compensation survey from The Medicus Firm.
For the past 24 years, Michael DeVaughn has served as CFO of WakeMed Health & Hospitals, the 870-bed private healthcare system based in Raleigh, N.C., and he has helped the system grow in a financially stable bastion in Wake County.
During fiscal year 2011, the FTC challenged 17 of the 1,450 transactions that were reported, and two of those were specifically hospital-related, according to the 2011 Hart-Scott-Rodino Annual Report.