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This week Connecticut's leaders had to close a $350 million hole in the state's budget. One place they cut is hospital funding, and that's making hospital executives furious.
As hospitals continue to look for ways to cut costs, a team at Stanford Medicine is looking at how facilities can shave dollars off medical device purchases.
The Miami owner of eight pharmacies will spend nine years in prison, the Department of Justice announced this week, for is part in a healthcare fraud that saw him spending the money he scammed on luxury cars for himself and his family.
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson this week released his healthcare platform, a plan for reform that he said would fix the relationship between physician and patient by providing tax-sheltered accounts and giving Medicare patients the onus to buy their own plans.
A sizable number of hospitals have posted job openings for CFOs on LinkedIn, Indeed and elsewhere, indicating the field is wide open for those wishing to take the reigns of a healthcare organization's finances. Here are 10 of them, spanning the country from Florida to Washington state.
As patients face high deductibles, price is a major topic that's put pressure on healthcare providers to offer price transparency, even though what a hospital charges can be far different from what a patient actually owes after their insurance covers some of the costs.
Among uninsured individuals who are not exempt from the Affordable Care Act penalty, the average household fine for not having insurance in 2015 will be $661, rising to $969 per household in 2016, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday updated the quality scores for 40,000 physicians who shared benchmarks under the Physician Quality Reporting System, despite outcry by the American Medical Association that the data is incomplete.
Crowded emergency departments have been vexing patients and hospital staff for years as consumers have increasingly sought care there. But a new study finds that many of the busiest facilities have yet to adopt several well regarded measures to reduce the wait and minimize delays.
As patients face high deductibles, price is a major topic that's put pressure on healthcare providers to offer price transparency, even though what a hospital charges can be far different from what a patient actually owes after their insurance covers some of the costs.