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Healthcare businesses added more than 37,000 jobs in January, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Friday, as the first month of 2016 seemed to extend the sector's job-creating trend over the past year.
Nearly a third of patients who get colonoscopies to screen for cancer visit a gastroenterologist before having the procedure, at an average cost of $124, even though such visits may be unnecessary, a new study found.
The project, announced on Sunday, will tack on 54,000 square feet to the current 119,000 square-foot structure and will encompass a new outpatient center on the first floor, a surgery suite on the second floor and private inpatient rooms on the third.
The last-minute surge lifted the total enrollment in Obamacare to 12.7 million this year, accounting for 9.6 million consumers enrolled or re-enrolled for coverage through Healthcare.gov and the 3.1 million people who selected plans through the state-based marketplaces.
The Pardee Hospital Foundation has received $200,000 from the James H. Cummings Foundation and $150,000 from the Cannon Foundation to support ongoing renovations to the North Carolina hospital's operating rooms, part of the facility's Comprehensive Cancer Center Capital Campaign.
Many providers are at a crossroads right now: Either join an accountable care organization or be placed into Medicare's Merit-Based Incentive Payment System.
As patient financial responsibilities continue to increase, providers must both adopt and adapt to new technologies and strategies to help patients meet their obligations, or suffer a potentially calamitous drop-off in collections, according to Lah, who has over 30 years of experience in healthcare operations.
Peter Lee said UnitedHealth made a series of blunders on rates and networks that led to a $475 million loss last year.
The last-minute surge lifted the total enrollment in Obamacare to 12.7 million this year, accounting for 9.6 million consumers enrolled or re-enrolled for coverage through Healthcare.gov and the 3.1 million people who selected plans through the state-based marketplaces.
Six hospitals in the North Carolina-based Vidant Health system will join Winston-Salem's Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center's Telestroke Network by the end of the year, Wake Forest Baptist announced in a statement Wednesday.