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Because physicians who treat addiction don't necessarily have experience with surgery or access to sterile spaces, some are having to learn a new skill and develop new systems.
A California bill that would allow certified nurse-midwives to practice independently is pitting the state's doctors against its hospitals, even though both sides support the main goal of the legislation.
Even for states that have managed to institute some kind of method for consumers to compare prices for healthcare services, patients have few options for finding current pricing on common procedures. That's what a study from the nonprofit advocacy group Public Citizen shows.
Dignity Health-GoHealth Urgent Care, a joint venture created to bring urgent care centers to California's Bay Area, this week opened its latest clinic.
Crews in Minot, North Dakota are continuing work on a $250 million medical park for Trinity Health, taking advantage of dry weather to ensure the revamped campus is built on a solid foundation.
Advocate Health Care Network will pay $5.5 million to settle with the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights regarding multiple potential HIPAA violations that involved electronic protected health information, HHS announced.
Only medical and diagnostic laboratories, which lost 300 jobs, and residential mental health facilities, which lost 200 jobs, saw employment shrink in the month.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has named the hospitals that will participate in their Frontier Community Health Integration Project Demonstration, also known as FCHIP, an initiative meant to increase access to healthcare in rural areas.
A Kaiser Health News analysis of the CMS data showed 1,621 hospitals having been fined 5 years in a row, earning payment reductions as high as 3 percent.
The clock is ticking and the agenda is filling for the Dec. 6-7 HIMSS and Healthcare Finance News Revenue Cycle Solutions Summit in Boston. Topic and speaker proposals are being accepted until next Friday, August 12.