The American Medical Association recently released a statement supporting health reform and expanded coverage for uninsured persons but opposing "any public plan that forces physicians to participate, expands the fiscally-challenged Medicare program or pays Medicare rates," according to an AMA…

Doctors Community Hospital in Lanham, Md., has been fined $30,000 for failure to report errors that resulted in patient death and serious harm as is required by state law, according to a report by the Washington Post.

A study by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology has found that hospitals are cutting resources for infection control, despite growing number of healthcare-associated infections, according to an APIC news release.

Members of the Ways and Means Committee, the Energy and Commerce Committee and Education and the Labor Committee presented a draft outline of legislation that would reform the current U.S. healthcare system, according to a House Committee on Ways and…

An Oregon bill to tax hospitals and insurance premiums in order to provide health insurance to the state's uninsured has passed out of the House Revenue Committee, according to a report by the Portland Business Journal.

The Hospital of Central Connecticut, which has locations in New Britain and Southington, has been disciplined by state officials after inspections found several violations, including one that may have led to a patient's death, according to a report in The…

A recent study reported that Massachusetts continued to see gains in the share of residents who reported having a steady source of healthcare coverage in 2008, its second year of near-universal coverage, but also saw growing numbers of patients saying…

Summa Health Systems and Crystal Clinic, both based in Akron, Ohio, have merged orthopedic programs, according to a report in Crain's Cleveland Business.

A study by Public Citizen, a non-profit public-interest organization, found that hospitals routinely exploit loopholes to avoid reporting physicians who have had their admitting privileges revoked or restricted for more than 30 days, as is required by federal law, according…

Note: The following article was first published in The Camden Quarterly, volume XIII, number 2 by The Camden Group, one of the nation's leading healthcare advisory firms. Historically, buying physician practices has not resulted in successful outcomes. Hospital inexperience in…