Stephanie Bouchard
The House Energy and Commerce Committee is seeking feedback from 51 medical associations on how to fix the Sustainable Growth Rate - the formula used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to control Medicare payments to physicians.
Two studies released in March within a week of each other demonstrate the importance of higher nursing staff levels to patient outcomes, and, indirectly, to managing healthcare costs.
The current healthcare system is a "graveyard," says Paul Grundy, MD, president of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, but he has a roadmap that will take the country to the promised land.
Health Care REIT, Inc., a real estate investment trust based in Toledo, Ohio, has completed the formation of an $890 million partnership with Benchmark Senior Living, which was previously announced on February 15, 2011.
Rural/Metro Corporation, a national provider of ambulance and private fire protection services in 20 states, has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by the global private equity firm Warburg Pincus in an all-cash transaction.
When the National Resident Matching Program announced earlier this month that for two years running the number of U.S. medical student seniors who will train as family medicine residents rose, the clamor began: Does this indicate a trend? Will the worries about a shortage of primary care physicians be dispelled?
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will make changes in April to its Nursing Home Compare website, an online database used by consumers to compare nursing homes nationwide.
Insight Health Services, a provider of fixed-site and mobile diagnostic imaging services, emerged from Chapter 11 restructuring this week.
The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Care is set to launch a medical home certification pilot and is seeking community health centers and other primary care practices to participate.
Decision could impact costs and quality