Stanford Hospital & Clinics in Palo Alto, Calif., has named Margaret Vosburgh COO, effective Feb. 13, according to a hospital news release.
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Four executives at Buffalo, N.Y.-based hospital systems raked in compensation packages of more than $1 million in 2010, according to a Buffalo Business First report.
Roughly 17.1 percent of U.S. adults aged 18 and older did not have health insurance in 2011, making it the fourth straight year the uninsured rate increased, according to a recent Gallup index.
Non-home discharge for cardiac surgery patients can be predicted preoperatively, which may shorten length of stay and reduce resource use, according to a study in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.
UPMC has filed a motion accusing Pittsburgh-based West Penn Allegheny Health System of non-compliance with a discovery request, according to a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette report.
More than 100 medical groups and societies, such as the American Medical Association and the Society of Hospital Medicine, sent a letter (pdf) to the House Ways and Means Committee urging the sustainable growth rate be permanently fixed with savings…
Morristown, N.J.-based Atlantic Health System has submitted its accountable care organization application to CMS, hoping to make its commercial ACO model work for the federal program, according to an NJBIZ report.
Hoboken (N.J.) University Medical Center and Bayonne (N.J.) Medical Center, two for-profit hospitals owned by Hudson Hospital Holdco, have terminated health coverage contracts with two of the largest health insurers in the country — UnitedHealthcare and Aetna, according to a…
The 15 states that have made the least amount of progress toward implementing health insurance exchanges are primed to see the largest declines in their uninsured rates when the exchanges go live in 2014, according to a report from the…
The rate at which physicians referred patients to another physician — most often a specialist — has nearly doubled from 1999-2009, according to a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.