Richard Pizzi

The growing market power of hospitals and physicians to negotiate higher payment rates has gone largely unexamined, according to a study by the Center for Studying Health System Change.

Despite the increasing clout of HMOs in the 1990s, hospitals maintained a dominant position in determining healthcare pricing decisions, according to a new study.

Mountain States Health Alliance, a 15-hospital health system in eastern Tennessee, is reaching across state lines to fund a nursing education program in Virginia, with the hope that local residents will ultimately fill nursing positions.

The CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Health System, a five-hospital health system based in San Antonio, Texas, is implementing what it calls a “unique” revenue cycle management model.

Hospital inpatient and outpatient services encountered inflation rates around 8 percent in the past 12 months, which is 2 percent higher compared to the previous year, according to a new report.

Hays Medical Center of Hays, Kan., has added revenue recovery services to its revenue cycle management solutions to improve its net revenue collections.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services believes the U.S. not-for-profit healthcare sector has begun to stabilize after a very difficult period.

A new article in Health Affairs indicates recent annual increases in Medicare spending are the result of outpatient treatment of chronic conditions such as diabetes, arthritis, hypertension and kidney disease.

The Gwinnett Health System, a three-hospital integrated delivery network in Lawrenceville, Ga., plans to implement a new revenue cycle management solution in part to help detect errors made during the patient registration process.

Hospitals will likely reallocate their investment portfolios in order to provide capital stability and build cash reserves in 2010, says a new report on not-for-profit healthcare systems.