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In 2011, Wayne Smith, president and CEO of Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems, made more than $21.58 million in total compensation, an increase from the $20.96 million he made in 2010, according to documents from the U.S. Securities and Exchange…

Total compensation for Alan Miller, CEO and chairman of King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services, swelled 27 percent last year, from $9.85 million in 2010 to $12.5 million in 2011, according to documents from the U.S. Securities and Exchange…

Today, HHS announced a proposed rule (pdf) that would establish a unique health plan identifier under the HIPAA standards for electronic healthcare transactions.

Reducing clinical variation is a critical step to reign in America's healthcare costs. In a recent Verras blog post, Dan Woods provides a brief case study of one hospital's experience in reducing MRI variation.

Maryland's Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown announced all 52 patient-centered medical homes registered in the state received the stamp of approval needed from the National Committee for Quality Assurance.

Because the IRS is charged with administering critical parts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the tax agency has been receiving hundreds of millions of dollars to put the law into action, according to The Hill.

Legislators who authored the Physician Payments Sunshine Act — Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) — are again putting pressure on CMS, insisting in an open letter the government organization start data collection by June.

The following hospital mergers and acquisitions took place within the past week, beginning with the most recent.

The national average salary of hospital chief nursing officers increased 2.24 percent from 2010 to 2011 to an average of $148,112, according to a survey from Hospital & Healthcare Compensation Service.

CMS has released the full set of proposed clinical quality measures for 2014 as part of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs Stage 2 Notice of Proposed Rule Making.