Many healthcare leaders are strategizing to meet the requirements of section3022 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This historic passage of legislation to reform our nation’s healthcare is requiring new thinking and action. Although many of the specifics…

Researchers have developed and validated a system that could improve post-operative care by measuring patient recovery from surgery with general anesthesia, according to the study abstract published in the October issue of Anesthesiology.

It will be awhile before we know if the current courtship between hospitals and physicians produces a marriage made in heaven or a shotgun wedding. And the effectiveness of marketing to physicians will be a primary force in shaping the…

University of Minnesota cardiologists and Minnesota Heart Clinic have agreed to merge to create a heart practice to rival the area's top heart program — 55-physician Minneapolis Heart Institute at Allina's Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, according to a Star…

An affiliate of Franklin-Tenn.-based Community Health Systems has acquired Lakeland, Fla.-based Advantage Home Health Services, according to a Ledger report.

The Federal Trade Commission recently held a listening session with stakeholders on possible ways to change antitrust enforcement to allow accountable care organizations to bring together competing organizations. Here Axel Bernabe and Ankur Kapoor, healthcare antitrust attorneys and partners in…

Johns Hopkins Medicine received acclaim for its new, innovative Urban Health Residency Program for medical students in a recent Baltimore Sun report. The program is the first of its kind in the U.S., adapting the curriculum to inner-city Baltimore and…

While hospitals and physicians' views on accountable care organizations are well known, six other healthcare sectors shared their views on how ACOs would affect them during the federal agencies' Oct. 5 listening session on ACO regulations, according to a report…

Under an unusual bundled payment arrangement, home improvement retailer Lowe's is flying employees who need heart surgery to Ohio, where the Cleveland Clinic treats them in exchange for a bundled payment. Michael McMillan, director of market and network services at…

The debate over whether CRNAs should be allowed to administer anesthesia without physician supervision has continued throughout the country on the heels of Colorado becoming the 16th state to opt out of the federal Medicare rule.