Kelsey Brimmer
FORTUNE magazine released its annual list of the 100 Best Companies to Work For. This year, 12 companies in the healthcare industry made the list and a few of them shared some insights with Healthcare Finance News on why employees enjoy working for them.
A recent study published in the Journal of Nursing Care Quality found that improvement is needed when it comes to the participation levels of newly-registered nurses in hospital quality improvement levels.
On Wednesday, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced that his office recovered over $335 million for the state in 2012 that had been improperly claimed through fraud or abuse in the Medicaid system.
A study published in a recent issue of Medical Care found that increased nurse-to-patient staffing ratios and good work environments for nurses were tied to lower 30-day readmission rates for Medicare patients suffering from heart failure, myocardial infarction and pneumonia.
Last week the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it will not challenge a proposal by the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA) to offer a gainsharing program to its member hospitals in the state.
In a recent report released by the Leapfrog Group and published in Health Affairs, researchers found that there hasn't been a lot of progress over the years when it comes to hospitals meeting certain safety standards.
On Tuesday, Maine Gov. Paul LePage announced at a press conference a plan to repay Maine hospitals the $186 million owed to them by the state for patients covered by Medicaid.
In a report released last week, the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System describes a set of three healthcare policies that could slow health spending by $2 trillion over 10 years by focusing on the way public and private purchasers pay for healthcare, enhancing consumers' choices of higher-value care and streamlining administrative procedures.
While only 17 percent of the working age U.S. population, adults with disabilities account for disproportionately high (almost 40 percent) emergency department visits, according to a recent study from National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers.
A recent economic impact analysis of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)-member medical schools and teaching hospitals showed that combined they added $587 billion to the nation's economy and supported close to 3.5 million jobs directly or indirectly in 2011.