Jeff Lagasse
Even when patients were grouped by characteristics such as age or severity of illness, hospitals differed significantly in inpatient costs, length of stay, and time spent in the intensive care unit.
Health Central Hospital in Ocoee, Florida will open the first phase of a newly reconstructed emergency department this month, the renovation of the current emergency department space, and new patient tower.
HealthSouth Corporation is planning a physical rehabilitation hospital in Alabama's Shelby County, the health system announced Monday. Financial terms of the project were not disclosed.
High-need individuals who cost the public or private sectors $50,000 or more in a single year top the list of the most expensive sources of healthcare costs, according to a study released by the American Health Policy Institute.
Integrated healthcare delivery and financing company UPMC is taking steps to thwart wasteful spending and high costs in forming an independent company called Pensiamo, which aims to help hospitals improve supply chain performance with a source-to-pay offering, including cognitive analytics with IBM Watson Health Technologies.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Thursday that it has barred Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes from the blood-testing business for two years, according to a statement on the company's website.
HCA East Florida, a division of the Hospital Corporation of America, will inject about $650 million in healthcare facilities in Miami Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and St. Lucie Counties thanks to a new capital investment initiative.
A Health Affairs study of national healthcare spending and where it's going shows that purchases of medical services and increased compensation of highly skilled professionals accounted for spending growth in multiple areas between 1997 and 2012. The study looked at hospitals, physician offices and outpatient centers.
Between 1997 and 2011, there was a nearly 50 percent reduction in emergency department mortality rates for adults in the United States, according to a new study published by Health Affairs.
The National Institutes of Health has announced $55 million in awards in the 2016 fiscal year needed to launch the Cohort Program of President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative.