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Fewer than one-quarter of hospitals in the United States are on track to hit the Obama administration's 2018 goal of providing at least half of their patient care through value-based arrangements -- structures that tie reimbursement from Medicare to the quality of care patients receive.
Twenty percent of reporting hospitals lack a policy that conforms to all of the criteria in the Leapfrog group's standard for preventable hospital errors dubbed "never events" the nonprofit agency has found in a newly released report.
First major restructuring since 2003 changes dues and governance.
Despite interventions by Medicare officials, the number of appeals from health care providers and patients challenging denied claims continues to spiral, increasing the backlog of cases and delaying many decisions well beyond the timeframes set by law, according to a government study released Thursday.
The Carolinas Healthcare system on Thursday was slapped with an antitrust suit by the state of North Carolina alleging that the system's Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority used its large size to exert market power in dealing with commercial health insurers and to negotiate higher reimbursement rates for treating insured patients.
Mercyhealth broke ground earlier this week on a large, $485 million expansion project that will yield a new specialty women's and children's hospital and multispecialty clinic building in Rockford, Illinois. Both facilities are scheduled for completion in early 2019.
Starting salaries for both primary care physicians and specialists have shot up in the last 12 months, according to a 2016 report by Merritt Hawkins, a physician search firm and subsidiary of AMN Healthcare. The spike represents a rising demand for physicians and amid the growing doctor shortage, Merritt Hawkins said.
The Consortium of Independent Physician Associations has formed a new Medicare Shared Savings Program Accountable Care Organization for Michigan and Ohio physicians.
Medical University of South Carolina has chosen Avantas to deliver system-wide workforce planning services that include predictive analytics, scheduling software and centralized resource management. MUSC Health expects this will optimize the health system's core and contingent labor, the companies announced on Wednesday.
With the newly-announced Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative Data Challenge, the foundation is offering $25,000 to two teams of entrants who'll work with researchers to expand understanding of the disease and improve the rate of drug testing.