Minnesota's state government is under a federal investigation to determine whether it inflated premium rates for its state Medicaid program, called Medical Assistance, and improperly received excess federal funding, according to a Star Tribune report.
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Centennial Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn., part of Brentwood, Tenn.-based TriStar Health System, has opened the $150 million TriStar Centennial Heart & Vascular Center, according to a Nashville Business Journal report.
Hospital employment of physicians has skyrocketed over the past several years, but that does not necessarily mean all physicians are looking to make the jump onto a hospital's payroll. Matt Kilton, principal and COO of Eveia Health and Consulting Management,…
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will allow more people to be eligible for Medicaid, and some states with high populations of non-elderly and poor individuals stand to gain more than others, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation report.
A majority of surveyed medical students and residents reported seeing defensive medicine in their training, according to a study published in Academic Medicine.
So far in 2012, hospital bonds have earned a 3.3 percent return, compared with the 2.5 percent return for the entire market, but looming cuts to Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements could have a big impact on hospital portfolios, especially those…
The base salary for a hospital chief medical information officer varied widely in 2011, with the most common salary falling between $200,000 and $300,000, according to the 2012 CMIO Compensation Survey.
Finley Hospital in Dubuque, Iowa, is filing a certificate of need to build a cardiac catheterization laboratory, according to a hospital news release.
Researchers have determined several risk factors for surgical site infections following bariatric surgery, according to research published in the American Journal of Infection Control.
Kentuckiana Medical Center, the bankrupt physician-owned hospital in Clarksville, Ind., has gone through several different financing proposals over the last several months in attempts to save the institution, and lawyers for the hospital have pitched a "much simpler" plan to…