Jeff Lagasse
The Conference of Boston Teaching Hospitals has come out in opposition to Question 4 on Massachusetts' November ballot, which seeks to legalize marijuana in the Commonwealth.
Hospital merger and acquisition activity swelled by 6.1 percent over 2015, according to a new analysis from strategic and financial services firm Kaufman Hall and Associates. It identified 52 hospital and health system transactions during that time, compared to 49 transactions recorded during the same period in 2015.
The owner of more than 30 Miami-area skilled nursing and assisted living facilities, a hospital administrator and a physician's assistant were charged with conspiracy, obstruction, money laundering and healthcare fraud in connection with a $1 billion scheme involving numerous Miami-based providers, the United States Department of Justice announced.
Each of the inpatient rehab facilities is operated by affiliates of HealthSouth Corp. through long-term net leases.
One in three deaths are caused by heart attacks and strokes, resulting in over $300 billion in healthcare costs each year.
Nineteen states have yet to expand their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act, and a new study from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shows just how much enrollment would increase if they did: 7.8 to 8.8 million, while the number of uninsured would decline between 4.1 and 5 million, the research found.
Teaching hospitals had slightly lower star ratings than non-teaching hospitals, while critical access hospitals showed high marks.
The more generic alternatives there are to brand-name drugs, the more likely they will drive down costs for patients and providers. That's the word from a new report from the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Merger and acquisition activity in the healthcare industry is booming thanks to high valuations, a strong return on investment and opportunities to consolidate, and according to new research by Cascade Partners, this is increasingly true within physician practice management.
Rates of potentially preventable readmissions declined across all conditions between 2010 and 2014, according to a MedPAC analysis of Medicare claims data.