Richard Pizzi
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.
The bond ratings assigned to one of the premier children's hospitals in the United States have stabilized recently, reflecting reductions in the hospital's operating losses.
Downey Regional Medical Center, a financially troubled Los Angeles-area hospital, will soon be acquired by another non-profit facility in southern California.
Many small businesses and tax-exempt organizations that provide health insurance coverage to their employees now qualify for a special tax credit, according to the Internal Revenue Service.
Affiliation discussions between Los Angeles-area Downey Regional Medical Center and the five-hospital Daughters of Charity Health System have ended, leaving the hospital scrambling to find an affiliation partner as it emerges from bankruptcy.
Brent Grimes IS the Corporate Director of Patient Financial Services at INTEGRIS Health, a 13-hospital health system based in Oklahoma City, Okla., with 1,900 licensed beds and employing more than 2,500 physicians.
Grimes spoke with editor Richard Pizzi about some of the challenges his office is encountering, and overcoming, in 2010.