New data collection tools and methods of payment could be in store for post-acute care providers, according to CMS' Post-Acute Care Payment Reform Demonstration (pdf) report.
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Recent research suggests electronic faucets are commonly contaminated with Legionella species, indicating opportunities for infection prevention efforts, according to a study published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
A team of Stanford University researchers have developed a Web-based game called Septris, designed to teach clinicians how to treat sepsis.
Missouri has awarded its Medicaid RAC contract to Cognosante, according to a company news release.
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…
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.