A lack of coverage for dental care has led many adult Medicaid patients with dental needs to go to emergency rooms, according to a USA Today report.
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Greene County General Hospital in Linton, Ind., is planning a $7 million renovation and expansion project, according to a Greene County Daily World report.
Board members of the Southeast Volusia Hospital District in Florida unanimously voted to file a legal malpractice suit against the law firm that represented it during its merger with Adventist Health System's Florida Hospital in Orlando, according to a Daytona…
Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health has laid off eight people in its marketing and web services department, according to a Citizen-Times report.
MedAssets, a healthcare revenue cycle management company, recently released its Access Integrity suite, a new technology for hospitals and healthcare providers that aims to improve front-end revenue cycle processes, according to a company news release.
Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia has reactivated its heart and lung transplant programs after receiving interim approval from the United Network of Organ Sharing, according to a hospital news release.
Several states around the country are implementing or proposing Medicaid plans to move toward managed care, and Alabama may join the bandwagon, according to a Montgomery Advertiser report.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has petitioned CMS for waivers so the state can begin transitioning Medicaid beneficiaries to managed care by next year, according to an Associated Press/CBS News report.
Because CMS does not sanction Medicaid program waivers due to budgetary reasons, it is unlikely that Maine's recent Medicaid proposal will be approved, according to a letter from CMS.
An op-ed published on Bloomberg says most business CEOs are "curiously passive" about the rising costs of healthcare and are failing to implement the most basic management tools to deal with the problem.