Richard Pizzi
As the current recession deepened, high performing philanthropic fundraisers in charge of major gifts and planned giving programs were the most effective and efficient rain-makers for health systems.
Pressured by an economy in crisis, state budget cuts and questions about community benefit, hospitals across the country are stressing the value they provide to their regions.
June Editorial: Richard Pizzi, Editor
Hospital officials won’t be pleased with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ proposed 2010 payment rate updates for acute care and long-term care hospitals.
The Medicare trust fund will be exhausted by 2017, two years earlier than originally projected, according to the annual report by the Medicare Trustees.
As healthcare finance professionals gather here for the Healthcare Financial Management Association’s 2009 ANI conference, they are faced with the worst economic environment in a generation, perhaps since the Great Depression.
ElderHealth Northwest, the largest provider of community-based care centers for elderly people in Washington, has been forced to lay off nearly 40 people as a result of state budget cuts.
New Jersey hospitals could lose $97 million in federal funds next year and more than $500 million over the next five years under new Medicare payment rules proposed to take effect in October, according to an analysis by the New Jersey Hospital Association.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) has introduced legislation that expands the role of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), making it an independent executive branch agency.