University of Louisville President James Ramsey, PhD, broke his silence on the rejection of University Hospital's proposed merger with Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's Healthcare in Louisville, Ky., and St. Joseph Health System in Lexington, Ky., according to a report…
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Titus Regional Medical Center in Mount Pleasant, Texas, fired a nurse for unauthorized viewings of patient medical records, according to a Daily Tribune report.
Partners HealthCare and Tufts Health Plan, two behemoth-sized healthcare organizations in the Boston area, have reached a new contract agreement expected to reduce healthcare spending by more than $105 million over the next four years, according to a Partners news…
UnitedHealth Group, the largest insurer in the United States and parent company of UnitedHealthcare, recorded a profit of $1.26 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011, up nearly 21 percent from the same quarter in 2010, according to a UnitedHealth…
Perhaps the number one lesson learned regarding recovery audit contractors in the last year is that they are not going way and, in fact will be increasing. According to the American Hospital Association's July 2011 RACTrac survey, complex denials are…
Indiana University Health Morgan Hospital in Martinsville, Ind., appointed Doug Puckett to CEO, according to an Inside Indiana Business report.
The federal government has approved Oklahoma's hospital provider fee, which will assess a 2.5 percent fee on the net patient revenues of roughly 80 state hospitals, according to a Tulsa World report.
Adrienne Kirby will join Cooper University Health in Camden, N.J., as COO beginning Jan. 30, 2012, according to a Gloucester County Times report.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently released the state's budget proposal, which included a $199,000 salary cap of taxpayer money for executives of state non-profit organizations, but hospital CEOs could be able to work around that provision if the organization…
Although CMS generally agrees with Utah's Medicaid shift toward managed care, the governmental organization still rejected parts of the state's Medicaid overhaul project, including higher co-pays and private insurance subsidies, according to a Salt Lake Tribune report.