Houston-based Memorial Hermann Healthcare System announced it has acquired South Texas Medical Clinics, a multispecialty physician group based in Wharton.
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CMS has identified hospitals with the highest Medicare spending per beneficiary, according to a Kaiser Health News report.
Stanford Hospital & Clinics in Palo Alto, Calif., is currently on an 11-year, $3 billion capital plan to replace, expand and renovate major portions of its hospital campus to comply with California's seismic mandates, and CFO Daniel Morissette is heading…
In the third quarter of the 2012 fiscal year, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (pdf) experienced a mild 3.7 percent increase in net income compared with the third quarter of 2011.
Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services and the University of Minnesota have agreed to build a $182 million medical center in Minneapolis specializing in outpatient services, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
Between 2001 and 2010, Medicare payments for evaluation and management services increased 48 percent, from $22.7 billion to $33.5 billion, and this was due to their high vulnerability to fraud and abuse from physicians billing higher levels, according to a…
Non-profit hospitals currently face the challenge of doing more with less — providing high-quality care with lower reimbursement rates per unit of service — but there are five strategies organizations can focus on to become high-performing, according to a report…
The national average salary for staff physician anesthesiologists increased 4.35 percent in 2012 to a total of $334,916, according to a survey from Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service (pdf).
Several factors, including case type and provider experience, influence whether anesthesiologists report medication errors, according to a study published in the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia.
More Massachusetts hospital workers received flu vaccinations during the most recent flu season compared to last season, but state officials said more work can be done, according to a Boston Globe report.