Beginning next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over the legality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. They must first consider whether or not the challenge can move forward and then if the individual mandate is or…
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A hospital can improve physician group acquisitions by understanding key decision points of a physician group and criteria to assess the sale of the practice. An important element of an acquisition is the valuation. The valuation of a physician group…
In the era of accountable care, hospitals and physicians are partnering as never before. There are several approaches to integrating physicians into a hospital or health system, including employment, co-management and contracting for certain services. One perhaps under-explored option is…
Physicians may have more time to dedicate to other practice concerns following a delay of the ICD-10 coding system, according to an American Medical News report.
CMS has lifted the "immediate jeopardy" status placed on Iredell Memorial Hospital in Statesville, N.C., last month, meaning the hospital may maintain its Medicare status and payments, according to a Statesville report.
Here are 10 new surgery center projects planned, opened or developed by hospitals, according to various news reports.
The Delaware Health and Social Services' Division of Public Health has issued quarterly data for hospital central line-associated blood stream infections, which showed none of Delaware hospitals had an infection rate statistically different from the national rate.
Results from a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control showed an antiseptic with chlorhexidine gluconate 1 percent and ethyl alcohol 61 percent has similar efficacy but better persistence than two other types of antiseptics, according to a…
St. Charles Parish Hospital in Luling, La., is planning to construct an adult outpatient clinic in Destrehan, according to a Times-Picayune report.
Here are 20 statistics on compensation for physicians in five common surgery center specialties, based on data from Medscape's Physician Compensation Report 2011.