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Healthcare Venture Professionals, a development, management, leadership and consulting company providing services to hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers, has launched its new Web site.

Hospital-based oncology services, long a mainstay business line, face many challenges as some of those services migrate from hospitals to outpatient surgery centers, physician offices and even to patient homes. Newer drugs, safer surgical procedures and advanced imaging and radiation…

The combination of a dedicated staff, strong faith, belief system and a rich history of offering quality care make CHRISTUS St. Michael Health System in Texarkana, Texas, a great place to work, says Chris Karam, president and CEO, who has…

Here are 96 questions in 23 categories you should address when considering and reviewing managed care contracts.

For a cardiovascular program to become successful, it requires several critical components, says Edward Kasper, MD, FACC, chief of clinical cardiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

A revolution in healthcare is under way, and it is not in the form of the much heralded reform effort building on Capitol Hill. The consumerization of healthcare is happening now. Patients and their families increasingly approach healthcare decisions as…

In anticipation of a new presidential administration, CMS has recapped its roadmap for reshaping Medicare’s traditional fee-for-service program through market-based and value-purchasing initiatives intended to improve quality and reduce costs.

HHS' Inspector General Daniel Levinson has announced that the agency charged with protecting Medicare and Medicaid and other HHS' program funding from waste, fraud and error recovered $2.35 billion in fiscal 2008 ending Sept. 30, 2008.

Whenever someone asks me what it takes to succeed in the ASC business, I immediately tell them about "the five C's." These are the five core concepts or competencies that must be mastered by physician-owners at all types of ASCs,…

Lakeview Hospital in Stillwater, Minn., is putting a four-phase, 20-year expansion project on hold because of concerns over the current economy, according to the Minneapolis/St. Paul Star Tribune.