CMS' Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program was designed to pay hospitals a higher annual update to their payment rates for successfully reporting and meeting designated quality measures. In turn, the reported information, which is shared through the CDC's National Healthcare…
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On Jan. 25, Asit Gosar with Objective Health, a specialized group within McKinsey & Company, discussed strategies for hospitals to improve their margins in a webinar presentation and subsequent Q&A session for Becker's Hospital Review.
Every hospital or health system has money that can be salvaged from past accounts — it's only a matter of how much can be saved and how it's done.
The healthcare and social assistance sector is projected to gain the most jobs and have rapid job growth from 2010 to 2020, according to a news release by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Oklahoma State University Medical Center in Tulsa has completed $25 million in renovations, according to a Tulsa World report.
Akron (Ohio) General Medical Center is converting 10 critical-care beds into a neurological intensive care unit, according to an Akron Beacon Journal report.
Advocate South Suburban Hospital in Hazel Crest, Ill., has opened a new pediatric unit — the first dedicated pediatric unit at the hospital in at least five years, according to a Southtown Star report.
Several cardiology organizations have issued an expert consensus document on the use of transcatheter aortic valve replacement for patients with aortic valvular stenosis, which was recently approved by the FDA, according to an American College of Cardiology news release.