SSM Health Care of Oklahoma is combining the emergency rooms at two of its Oklahoma City hospitals, according to published reports.

A coalition of three dozen social service, healthcare, labor and legal groups are asking Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick to use part of the federal stimulus package the state will receive late January to support healthcare programs, according to The Boston…

Dick Hanley, president and CEO of Broomfield, Col.-based Health Inventures, which specializes in developing and managing ASCs and imaging centers, often brokering partnerships between hospitals and physicians, offers the following six predictions and assessments relating to physician/hospital ASC joint venture…

Cleveland Clinic has made the business relationships of its physicians visible online as part of its commitment to transparency.

CMS has proposed today three national coverage determinations (NCDs) to establish uniform national policies that would prevent Medicare from paying for certain serious, preventable errors, or "never events," identified in the National Quality Forum's (NQF's) list of Serious Reportable Events:…

In this case study, a health system collaborated with an existing ASC and its physicians through resyndication. Learn how the health system, with market assessment, strategic planning, feasibility analysis and financial planning expertise from Health Inventures, was able to make…

In this joint-venture case study, a hospital joined with physicians to take a two-OR hospital outpatient department and create a multispecialty, four-OR/one-procedure-room, freestanding ASC. With the help of Health Inventures in several areas, the Omaha, Neb., project was able to…

We have received numerous comments from administrators that an attorney has recommended the involvement of a valuator during the formation of a hospital-physician venture such as surgery, imaging, cancer, and inpatient rehab centers. While we do not believe the involvement…

The American Hospital Association (AHA) has issued a report showing how the struggling economy is affecting hospitals.

Senators have released a draft of legislation that would start a Medicare value-based purchasing program for hospitals in 2012.