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Current physician payment models are placing too much pressure on managers to convert quickly to value-based payment, a new report by the Alliance of Community Health Plans claims. Initiatives should more gradually impose risk models so that practices have time to make the needed investments.
Vermont led the country with 83 percent of hospitals earning 'A' grades while Maine and Rhode Island both came in second with 62.5 percent of hospitals earning top grades.
David L. Miller, President and Chief Operating Officer of Community Health Systems, will retire at the end of the year, the company announced Friday. Miller was the first COO ever for CHS and has held the position since January 2014.
Nearly 800 hospitals earned the highest marks for safety in the Spring 2016 release of the Leapfrog Group's Hospital Safety Score, and report organizers say about 33,000 lives could be saved annually if every hospital performed that well.
The Leapfrog Group on Monday released its latest Hospital Safety Score rankings, assigning 15 hospitals with flunking grades for their record of incidents of patient harm and preventable death.
The Leapfrog Group on Monday released its latest Hospital Safety Score rankings, awarding 798 hospitals with top grades for their record of low incidents of patient harm and preventable death.
The absence of more stores like CVS that are easily accessible to people in impoverished, predominantly black neighborhoods underscores Baltimore's other persistent inequities.
While there are currently only 22 proton therapy centers in the United States, the growing interest in the advanced cancer therapy is causing more hospitals to weigh the benefits against the high cost of opening their own centers.
Beginning in 2019, insurance companies that contract with the exchanges must either exclude from their networks any hospital that doesn't meet the federal government's 2020 target C-section rate or explain why they aren't, according to the new contract approved by the Covered California board.
Health insurance giant Aetna has declared victory in a years-old lawsuit against Bay Area Surgical Management, after a civil jury slapped the California medical group with a $37.4 million dollar judgement, Aetna said.