Susan Morse
The Medicare Part A annual deductible that beneficiaries pay when admitted to the hospital will be $1,288.00 in 2016, a small increase from $1,260.00 in 2015.
A judge in New Jersey is expected to hear a complaint by Saint Peter's University Hospital that it was illegally excluded from a new discounted health plan offered by the state's largest health insurer because it and other independent, Catholic hospitals serve low income residents, according to the health system.
GE Healthcare has acquired advisory firm The Camden Group, adding its more than 2,000 health organization customers to its consulting business in the United States and solidifying its position in the health sector.
CCOs at companies with more than $3 billion in annual revenue earned an average of $297,604 a year, while those at small organizations with revenue less than $5 million earned $90,487, according to the survey.
The investigation is spurred by dramatic drug price increases, often on older, off-patent drugs, after the acquisition or merger of pharmaceutical companies.
Healthcare construction nationwide is booming, with about $97 billion in projects for new hospitals, expansions and off-campus clinics and medical offices currently underway.
The revenue cycle is a complicated circuit of administrative, technological, financial and patient-level processes that many healthcare administrators say is in need of streamlining.
Cabell Huntington Hospital proposed acquiring St. Mary's Medical Center located three miles away.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is developing a new model for how it pays dual-eligible health plans after an analysis showed it was underpaying these plans.
The Massachusetts hospitals follow the exit of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire last month.