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The tornado that devastated Moore, Oklahoma Monday has also wrecked the community's hospital - Moore Medical Center.
Emergency departments are now responsible for half of all inpatient admissions and accounted for nearly all the increases in admissions between 2003 and 2009, according to a new report from Rand Corporation.
The Texas Supreme Court has denied an attempt by 14 hospitals to force the state Health and Human Services Commission to recalculate and repay the difference on past Medicaid claims.
A new survey finds that the country's primary care physicians generated more revenue for their affiliated hospitals than did the hospitals' specialists.
With hospitals nationwide feeling the burden of Medicare penalties for avoidable 30-day readmissions, C-suite managers have been frantically searching for ways to pinpoint these high-risk patients early on. A recent analysis suggests a low-cost and simple scorecard that detects one out of four of these patients.
Dr. Thomas Bellavia transformed his traditional medical practice in Hasbrouck Heights, N.J., into a so-called medical home where patients are seen by teams of doctors and nurses. He says it has paid off in better, more coordinated care for his patients and healthier income for the nurse practitioners and physicians in his group.
When President Barack Obama released his fiscal year 2014 budget proposal in April, John Lozier, executive director of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC), became immediately concerned that not enough is being done at the federal level to resolve the on-going homelessness epidemic.
How consolidation and integration plays out will determine if providers or payers have more influence on competition suggested experts at a conference last week sponsored by America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP).
How consolidation and integration plays out will determine if providers or payers have more influence on competition suggested experts at a conference last week sponsored by America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP).
Utah lawmakers are considering following the rest of the country in adopting a long-term care insurance public-private partnership that encourages people to buy private long-term care insurance and offset the use of Medicaid.