Richard Pizzi
Colorado Governor Bill Ritter issued an executive order last week directing the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing to craft new safety guidelines, including the denial of payment for avoidable medical errors.
The U.S. Congress has an inadequate understanding of the cost savings that healthcare information technology can provide, said a Pennsylvania Congressman at HIMSS09 Sunday.
Nearly $36 million in funding is being distributed to the 54 State Health Insurance Assistance Programs to help people with Medicare get more information about healthcare choices.
Missouri’s safety net healthcare providers are seeing increased numbers of uninsured patients and are incurring new financial strains as a result of the changes made to Missouri’s Medicaid system in 2005.
A healthcare network in upstate New York has settled a class-action lawsuit that alleges hospitals conspired to depress the wages of registered nurses.
A recent survey by The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania reveals that the economic environment for the state’s general acute-care hospitals has not improved since the end of 2008, and in some areas has worsened.
As economic difficulties continue to hit hospitals hard, two Milwaukee-area health systems have decided to share certain hospital-based physician services in an attempt to save money.
The value of care offered to hospital patients can vary by as much as 40 percent across the United States, according to a recent study examining quality, affordability, efficiency and patient satisfaction at more than 3,000 hospitals.
Richard Pizzi interviewed Gary, Pickens, chief research officer, Center for Healthcare Improvement
Hospital officials will take good news wherever they can find it these days.