Richard Pizzi
The Medical Travel Quality Alliance has announced the first program to train and certify international patient care managers and medical travel providers worldwide.
A new study from the Center for Economic and Policy Research reveals that the $62 trillion 'intergenerational debt' figure most often discussed in policy debates is due almost entirely to spiraling private-sector healthcare costs.
The Greater Hazleton Health Alliance has saved nearly $500,000 in nine months by leveraging Broadlane’s supply chain services at its facilities.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has decided to cover Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection screening for Medicare beneficiaries who are at increased risk for the infection, including women who are pregnant and Medicare beneficiaries of any age who voluntarily request the service.
The Texas Academy of Family Physicians will begin aggregating members' reimbursement data and provide real-time payer benchmarking to identify problem payers and troubling reimbursement trends before they turn into cash-flow pitfalls.
Two U.S. health systems, AtlantiCare in Egg Harbor Township, N.J., and Heartland Health in St. Joseph, Mo., have won the 2009 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
How healthcare organizations improve project management in a time of limited financial resources was a hot topic last week at the World Health Care Leadership Summit on Project and Portfolio Management for Healthcare Executives in Boston.
The Medicare trust fund will be exhausted by 2017, two years earlier than originally projected, according to the annual report released in summer 2009 by the Medicare Trustees.
The value of care offered to hospital patients can vary by as much as 40 percent across the United States, according to a 2009 study examining quality, affordability, efficiency and patient satisfaction at more than 3,000 hospitals.
Pressured by an economy in crisis, state budget cuts and questions about community benefit, hospitals in 2009 stressed the value they provide to their regions.