Jeff Lagasse
Prices for outpatient, inpatient, professional services, and prescription drugs increased between 3.5 and 9 percent in 2015, report says.
Number one place to focus is on capturing accurate, complete clinical documentation in support of accurate coding, Leigh Williams says.
Rockwood Health sale is the latest in string of divestitures for struggling CHS; financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Memorial Hermann Sugar Land becomes the first Houston-area hospital, and the third in Texas, to win the award.
The hospital has a model 2 bundled payment program for its congestive heart failure patients.
Average of all one-star hospitals, immediate service base shows almost $21K less in household median income, 28.3 percent more in poverty.
49 percent say they "often or always" experience feelings of burnout, would not recommend a career in medicine to their children.
There were only 130 of them in 2006, but by 2012 there were 1,400 nationwide; third of population lives within 10 minutes of one.
Parent companies' boards have appointed Rob Coppedge as CEO, will lead the combined strategic investment company.
Physicians should be models of leadership, articulate individual responsibilities, encourage insights from other team members, AMA says.