Richard Pizzi
The University of Connecticut Health Center and Hartford Hospital are preparing to seek legislative approval in January for a $475 million, 250-bed hospital to replace UConn's John Dempsey Hospital in...
South Florida's Broward Health system has received a gift of more than $4.5 million for the construction of a women's health pavilion at Broward General Medical Center.The Lillian S. Wells Foundati...
Cleveland Clinic chief executive officer Toby Cosgrove, MD, has told employees that the health system has instituted a hiring and salary freeze.The freeze does not affect employees needed for direc...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week released quality ratings for each of the nation's 15,800 nursing homes that participate in Medicare or Medicaid.For the first time i...
In response to recent reductions in service payments from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston Medical Center is cutting $61.5 million from its budget.The magnitude of the reduced payments...
The California HealthCare Foundation's annual publication, California's Uninsured, 2008, shows that over the past 20 years, the percent of uninsured Californians under age 65 has continued to r...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has launched its fourth annual healthcare provider satisfaction survey of Medicare fee-for-service contractors who process and pay more than $280 billi...
The Clayton County (Ga.) Commission rejected a bond this week for the county's only hospital, which may lead to layoffs or - in the worst case scenario - closing the hospital.The commission v...
Medicare Advantage organizations earned $1.3 billion more than was projected in profits in 2006, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office.MA organizations are not requi...
New York has recovered more than double the federal requirements for improperly paid Medicaid funds, according to New York Medicaid Inspector General James G. Sheehan.Under the Federal-State...