Stephanie Bouchard
Community Health Systems has reduced its second quarter earnings forecast and announced it has received another subpoena related to an ongoing Department of Justice investigation into the hospital operator's admissions practices.
Members of the skilled nursing community have been voicing concerns about the sector's ability to remain viable in the face of continued reimbursement cuts from the federal government. A new analysis bolsters their argument that SNFs are on shaky ground.
In "How a Blog Held Off the Most Powerful Union in America," author Paul Levy, former president and CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, provides a detailed look at how unions use corporate campaigns and how one health center used social media to neutralize such tactics. He talked to Healthcare Finance News about his book.
A recent study indicates that if four bad habits were reduced, the United States could save nearly $13.4 billion in cancer treatment costs.
A federal court judge in Chicago Tuesday dismissed a whistle-blower case against long-term care pharmacy provider, Omnicare, following the finalization of an undisclosed settlement that took nearly a year to hammer out.
Integrating physicians into hospitals has been theorized to be a cost-saving measure. A new poll of physician executives indicates that such integration may actually increase healthcare costs.
The healthcare industry continued to add jobs in June, gaining nearly 20,000, including a rebound in the hospital sector, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Friday.
The number and value of physician medical group transactions has been on the rise over the last five years, and as healthcare networks become the norm under pressure from healthcare reform, the conditions will remain ripe for a continuation of that trend.
Proposed changes to the Medicare home health prospective payment system (HH PPS) will save the government approximately $290 million but the resulting cuts have home health agencies concerned.
While consumers indicated in a recent survey that they like the bundled care model, a new survey on provider attitudes towards bundles finds mixed reviews.