In an effort to reduce primary care shortages, Oklahoma's Gov. Mary Fallin signed into law legislation that provides more than $3 million to create medical residency programs at rural hospitals in the state, according to an Oklahoman report.
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In fiscal year 2011, hospitals and other providers appealed 56,620 claims, or 6.3 percent, of the 903,372 that had overpayment determinations from Medicare Recovery Auditors (RACs), and of those appealed claims, 43.4 percent received a ruling in the provider's favor,…
On the campaign trail Wednesday, GOP candidate Mitt Romney said President Obama "knowingly slowed down" the economic recovery in an effort to focus on healthcare reform, according to a Hill report.
Increased outpatient volumes across the for-profit hospital sector in the first quarter of 2012 have contributed to a growth in adjusted admissions, revenue and profitability, according to a report from Fitch Ratings.
The loss of healthcare jobs shouldn't be a factor when designing strategies to cut healthcare costs, according to an op-ed penned by two Harvard economists and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The former executive at Tri-City Healthcare District in Oceanside, Calif., has filed a legal claim seeking $445,000 in severance pay and more than $1 million in damages from the district, alleging he was terminated because he requested time off for…
The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on a bill today that would repeal a 2.3 percent excise tax on medical devices, part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act set to kick beginning January 2013.
During 2011, Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanguard Health Systems injected $38.2 million into capital projects for Detroit Medical Center as well as $36.4 million for routine capital investments, but both figures fell short of commitments Vanguard made when it agreed to purchase…
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper recently signed House Bill 1281 into law, which would establish a pilot program to create new payment methods in the state Medicaid program.
Out of the three possible outcomes regarding the Supreme Court's ruling of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, for-profit hospitals stand to lose financially on two, according to a report from Moody's Investors Service.