Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes, Ind., has broken ground on a $109 million, five-story, 120-bed inpatient tower.
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The rate of advanced diagnostic imaging and associated radiation exposure at integrated healthcare systems has increased significantly from 1996 to 2010, according to a study in The Journal of the American Medical Association.
Providers responding to a recent Medical Group Management Association physician placement survey reported the most placements in California (more than 300), Pennsylvania, (292) and Texas (267). The states where providers reported the least number of placements included North Dakota, Idaho…
From a per-beneficiary standpoint, the following 10 states represent more than 56 percent of the total Medicare physician payments. Payments to rural providers in these states are more than 84 percent less than payments made to urban providers. Data is…
In a little over six months, the number of accountable care organizations nationwide has expanded to 221, which represents a 38 percent increase from November 2011, according to a June 2012 Leavitt Partners white paper.
Seven cardiologists who operated an OhioHealth practice in Springfield before leaving to work for competitor Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center have been banned from practicing medicine in Clark County through October 2013, according to a Columbus Dispatch report.
A New York payor and provider have each settled separate charges of improper billing practices, and each case involved patients allegedly receiving unexpected physicians bills that should have been covered.
Consumers Union urged House and Senate leaders today to adopt a number of provisions from the Senate’s FDA User Fee Act that would boost medical device safety. Read the full report in Becker’s ASC Review on medical device safety.
No hospital wants to go the way of record stores or videotape rental shops, which were slow to evolve and largely edged out of the entertainment industry. An organization with "stagnant, ostrich-like leadership" could face the same fate, according to…
New research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that gender income inequality exists between women and men academic physician researchers even after adjusting for differences in specialty, work hours, academic rank and other factors.