A study published in the American Journal of Managed Care suggests Medicare Advantage patients saw lower readmission rates than Medicare fee-for-service patients, according to a MedAssurant news release.
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Research published in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control suggests a unit-based, rather than a hospital-based, approach may be more effective in reducing nosocomial MRSA rates.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first breath test to detect Helicobacter pylori bacterial infections in children ages 3-17.
The Health Research & Educational Trust has released an updated version of its disparities toolkit, according to an AHA News Now report.
The following is excerpted with permission from the blog, "Not Running a Hospital," authored by Paul Levy, former CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. As my regular readers know, I oppose protectionist policies against new healthcare providers…
Rio Grande Hospital in Del Norte, Colo., is keeping a large majority of its patient happy, according to a Del Norte Prospector report.
Healthcare fraud risks in medical transport services have been receiving increasing attention. In Tennessee, the owners of Murfreesboro Ambulance Service face not merely exclusion but up to twenty year prison terms based on charges that they billed Medicare and Medicaid…
Although the holiday season may be over, hospitals and other healthcare providers received a belated but generous gift from the federal government on Dec. 31, 2011, when President Obama signed The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) [1] into law. The…
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has granted Louisiana State University and Tulane University nearly $4 million in funding to repair health facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina, according to a Times-Picayune report.
A recent poll by USA Today and Gallup found that approximately 75 percent of American voters believe the healthcare reform law's individual mandate is unconstitutional, according to a Los Angeles Times report.