Richard Pizzi
Children's Hospital Oakland has initiated its restructuring plan, laying off 17 staff members this week in the first phase of a program to reduce a projected loss of $26 million.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week issued a hospital inpatient and long-term care prospective payment system proposed rule for fiscal year 2011 that would decrease average inpatient payments by 0.1 percent.
Texas Health Resources, a 13-hospital health system in north Texas, and the LHP Hospital Group have formed a joint venture to acquire Wilson N. Jones Medical Center in Sherman, Texas.
Reducing the number of preventable patient injuries in California hospitals from 2001 to 2005 was associated with a corresponding drop in malpractice claims against physicians, according to a new study by the RAND Corporation.
Approximately three in four respondents to a survey of healthcare organizations said the recession has negatively impacted their balance sheets more than the 2001 recession.
New fiscal barriers created by state and local governments are reducing the ability of nonprofit hospitals to provide needed services, according to the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is urging healthcare providers to quickly complete its latest annual survey measuring their satisfaction with the contractors who process Medicare fee-for-service claims, including Medicare administrative contractors.
Defining the role of government in healthcare is the top issue facing managed care in 2010, according to the annual "top 10" list released by the Managed Care Executive Group.
Not-for-profit hospitals and health systems in the United States will likely face increased pressure over the next several years on their pension funds, according to Standard & Poor's Ratings Services.
Minnesota's 2008 healthcare reforms have laid the foundation for an expansion of the "accountable care" model of integrated and coordinated healthcare delivery, according to a new report.