White Memorial Medical Center in Los Angeles has been accused of patient-dumping and now faces a lawsuit alleging elder abuse, false imprisonment and hospital negligence, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
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More than 600 jobs will be affected at Louisiana State University's hospital system, as the system plans to close clinics, reduce services and decrease its patient capacity, according to a report from The Advocate.
Federal investigators are looking into the billing practices at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston to determine whether it overbilled Medicare for inpatient stays, according to a Boston Globe report.
Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation of America recorded a net income of $1.94 billion in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2011, a significant increase from the $283 million net income recorded in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to an…
Hospitals participating in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting program have until March 1 to preview their performance and correct any errors on the new Medicare spending per beneficiary measurement, according to an AHA News Now report.
The top official of Illinois' Medicaid program recently said if the state legislature does not enact certain measures to hold down Medicaid costs, the state's program could be "heading toward a crisis," according to an Associated Press/Chicago Tribune report.
Of the three main corporate healthcare sectors — hospital, long-term care and home health — the top human resource executive has the highest average salary at hospitals, according to a survey from Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service.
Health insurer Humana posted profit of $199 million in fourth quarter of 2011, an 86 percent increase from 2010, according to a Humana news release.
The American Hospital Association, Healthcare Financial Management Association and VHA recently sent a letter (pdf) to the Office of Management and Budget indicating the Internal Revenue Service did not follow the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 in issuing the revised…
Healthcare is a dynamic industry, in which it can sometimes feel as if change is the only constant. An overwhelming amount of information floods administrators on a daily basis, and there is simply not enough time to take it all…