The Minnesota Department of Health has issued a memo to healthcare facilities regarding proper reprocessing of endoscopes.
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At the beginning of January, CMS said it would delay the Jan. 1, 2012, launch date of its Recovery Audit Prepayment Review demonstration, and today CMS announced that demonstration will now move forward on or after June 1, 2012.
The problem.When Mark Hulse, current vice president and CIO, joined H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa, Fla., around 2010, the medical center already had a working data warehouse. However, the data warehouse was not meeting the…
Sitting in the healthcare "hot seat" is a turbulent experience right now for any hospital CFO. It's similar to the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" in that the personal pressure builds the further along someone goes, and…
In the second edition of a three-part series on co-management agreements, two experts from Surgical Care Affiliates discuss problems the model might encounter after it has been launched. These issues include standstills with performance and declines in physician engagement.
In 2011, Moody's Investors Service issued downgrades to 34 hospitals compared with 23 upgrades, marking the sixth consecutive year in which downgrades outnumbered upgrades, according to a recent Moody's report.
Oregon hospitals and health systems directly and indirectly generated more than 129,000 full- and part-time jobs in 2010, an increase of 3.5 percent from 2009, according to a report from the Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems (pdf).
A study in The New England Journal of Medicine may shed more light on which states and specialty medical services have contributed most to the sustainable growth rate deficit between 2002 and 2009.
Iowa hospitals generated more than $6.18 billion to the state's economy last year, according to a report from the Iowa Hospital Association (pdf).
Some hospitals pay thousands of dollars more than others for implantable medical devices — such as cardiac defibrillators and hip and knee joint replacements — and those excess costs may be passed onto Medicare, according to a report from the…