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Port Angeles, Wash.-based Olympic Medical Center CEO Eric Lewis is expected to receive a 10 percent salary raise to $176,000 pending board approval, but that would still put him below the average for the area, according to a Peninsula Daily…
An audit from the Arizona Auditor General's Office found the state Medicaid program is paying up to $50 million annually to provide care for ineligible Medicaid beneficiaries, according to an Arizona Daily Sun report.
Health insurers Molina Healthcare and Centene won back contracts from Ohio's Medicaid program after they filed appeals in April challenging how the state awarded the contracts, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
Roughly 82 percent of physicians do not receive compensation from prescriptions, lab tests, diagnostic imaging, hospital admissions and facility/surgery fees they order, and the largest portion of physician compensation comes from fixed sources, according to a survey from healthcare staffing…
The following hospital executive moves occurred within the past week, beginning with the most recent.
Moody's Investors Services has downgraded the bond rating of Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services from A2 to A3 due largely to the unexpected departure of CEO Mark Eustis and Fairview's "potential reputational risks" following the investigation of Accretive Health.
National health expenditures grew by 3.9 percent in April 2012 compared with April 2011, a continued trend of roughly 4 percent growth since mid-2011, according to a report from the Altarum Institute's Center for Sustainable Health Spending (pdf).
Seventeen states and the Obama Administration have worked together to design an interface to help consumers navigate online state health insurance exchanges, according to a Washington Post report.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance has announced plans to implement a specialty practice recognition program, and will begin accepting public input on it next week.