The Massachusetts Department of Public Health will publish healthcare quality report cards for more than 70 hospitals that indicate women in the state experience twice as many surgical site infections after vaginal hysterectomies than national rates, according to a Boston…
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UnitedHealthcare, part of UnitedHealth Group, has completed its acquisition of XLHealth Corp., a Medicare Advantage plan with roughly 117,000 beneficiaries, according to a UnitedHealth Group news release.
The Service Employees International Union — United Healthcare Workers West has officially launched an effort that would cap the compensation of the nine top executives at El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, Calif., according to a San Jose Mercury News…
High out-of-network costs have always been a deterrent for patients to stray outside their health plan's network, but a growing number of health insurers are recalculating reimbursements so patients have to bear even more of the expenses, according to a…
Hospitalization costs for patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia are nearly 1.5-times higher than patients without the infection, according to research published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
Healthcare leaders can learn from the mistakes of another industry that faced a similar pivotal environment in the late 1990s: newspapers, according to a Forbes report.
Electronic medical record implementation can be overwhelming for hospitals, but when it comes to emergency department information systems, there are four simple steps to select the right one, according to a whitepaper from CEP America.
UnitedHealth Group is reportedly revising the way it pays physicians and hospitals through the creation of "value-based" contracts that will reward providers for high-quality and efficient care, according to a Reuters report.
Medco Foundation and Dispensary of Hope have introduced a new, national initiative that aims to improve the supply, delivery and management of critical prescription drugs to uninsured Americans with chronic illness, according to a news release.
The Office of Inspector General is encouraging physicians to scrutinize entities before they reassign their right to bill the Medicare program, since the physicians may be liable if false claims are submitted by those entities.