Henry Powderly
The Leapfrog Group on Monday released its latest Hospital Safety Score rankings, assigning 15 hospitals with flunking grades for their record of incidents of patient harm and preventable death.
Almost every services sector of the U.S. healthcare industry saw higher levels of merger and acquisition activity in 2015, according to a new report by Irving Levin Associates.
Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services acting administrator Andy Slavitt to delay releasing the latest quarterly Hospital Compare rankings over concerns that the methodology used to rate hospitals fails to account for a patient pool's social and income-level standings.
Rite Aid earned nearly $166 million and opened 23 health clinics in 2015, the company announced in what may be its last full-year earnings report before its scheduled takeover by Walgreens.
New Jersey-based Hackensack University Medical Center has struck a deal with popular taxi service Uber to provide and help pay for transportation for its patients, staff and visitors.
Montefiore Health System this week rolled out a new branding slogan it hopes will draw attention to the system's legacy in the metro New York area.
CareCredit-backed survey found 44 percent of those asked were not aware of financing options.
The following database lists the individual skilled nursing facilities, their total number of stays, average length of stays, total charges, Medicare payments and Medicare allowances.
As the way hospitals and other healthcare providers get paid undergoes dramatic changes under value-based reimbursement, there is growing importance surrounding the revenue cycle operations. On Monday, HIMSS Media held its third Revenue Cycle Solutions Summit, hosting a standing-room-only crowd at the HIMSS16 conference. Below are some of the insights shared on Twitter during that event.
While startups and other corporate evangelicals may think it's better to fail fast, innovation models in healthcare would do better to establish a culture of learning instead of one that celebrates failure, according to Todd Dunn, director of innovation at Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare.