Kelsey Brimmer
As nearly every industry in the country has struggled in the recent recession, healthcare has bucked the trend, continually adding jobs and helping to fuel the country's economic recovery.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' 2014 proposed rules for the hospital outpatient prospective system, released earlier this week, offer payment increases and "packaging" of services.
Workplace wellness programs are becoming increasingly popular among employers but they are not likely having immediate positive effects on the amount employers end up spending on healthcare coverage for their employees.
Healthcare staffing provider Soliant Health announced the top 20 winners of its fifth annual Most Beautiful Hospitals in the U.S. awards.
Recently, Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) announced the winners of its 13th annual GHXcellence Awards, which honor supply chain leaders who have achieved significant savings and efficiencies. Two of the winners shared their success stories with Healthcare Finance News.
A recent report released by Standard & Poor's Rating Services says their rating agency is concerned that Big Pharma's current American pricing flexibility may diminish increasingly over the next few years due to rapidly growing costs of Medicare and Social Security with the aging of the U.S. population, and public and private sector healthcare payers looking to control their medical expenses.
With a number of studies indicating that one in three patients enters U.S. hospitals malnourished and many more becoming malnourished once admitted, five organizations decided to band together to launch the Alliance to Advance Patient Nutrition.
A recent survey published in JAMA Internal Medicine has shown that hospital performances on publicly reported conditions may potentially signify overall hospital mortality rates.
At the end of last week, University Hospitals (UH) and EMH Healthcare (EMH) announced that they had signed a letter of intent to officially undergo an integration that will add EMH to the UH health system.
Every hospital supply chain administrator fantasizes of an efficient way to create transparency in supply expense reporting and find cost savings. Administrators at Arizona's Banner Health made their fantasy a reality, creating a supply chain blue book.