Chelsey Ledue
J. P. Morgan Treasury Services, one of the nation's largest administrators of health savings accounts, is launching an HSA broker program.
IPC The Hospitalist Company, a national hospitalist physician group practice, has acquired Senior Care of Colorado, headquartered in Aurora, Colo.
Hospitals have been hiring physicians at an unprecedented rate this year, leaving administrators to figure out how to align clinical strategies, quality initiatives and compensation to best keep costs down and still provide quality care.
New laws help feds dump 'pay and chase' approach.
Accountable Care Organizations may not ultimately keep that name, but experts say the concept of organizing providers and payers into a network striving for higher quality and more efficient care is destined to become a reality fairly soon.
The emergency department information system market, worth $110 million in 2010, will grow by more than 30 percent in 2011, according to the Millennium Research Group, a global authority on medical technology market intelligence.
Members of the Service Employees International Union's United Healthcare Workers-West (SEIU-UHW) will go on strike Friday at five Hospital Corporation of America hospitals in California in an effort to target what they call unfair labor practices by the national company.
The majority of emergency department directors in a recent survey report inadequate on-call trauma coverage, and nearly one-quarter report a loss or downgrade of their hospitals' trauma center designations.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has launched the new application cycle for the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program, which received $290 million from the Affordable Care Act this year.
New regulations issued by the Department of Health and Human Services require health insurers to spend 80 percent to 85 percent of consumers' premiums on direct care for patients and efforts to improve care quality, starting in 2011.