Community Benefit
In an April 13 televised speech, President Barack Obama outlined his plan for reducing the federal deficit and cutting Medicare costs. Unlike the GOP plan, he said, his plan would "use a scalpel, not the machete."
It’s not unusual for nursing home patients to spend the last weeks of their lives in acute care hospitals even if they have made it known that they don’t want to end their days there.
As the administrative burdens associated with Medicare pile up, some doctors are growing frustrated and walking away from the program or limiting the number of Medicare patients they see.
The long-term care industry is one of the largest employers in the United States, yet its direct care workers are woefully underinsured, according to a new analysis.
The GOP has unveiled separate bills to repeal 'maintenance of effort' requirements for Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Programs - an action they say is necessary to help states balance their budgets in the face of ballooning healthcare costs.
More than 76 percent of hospitals participating in the National Hospital Preparedness Program met 90 percent or more of all program measures for all-hazards preparedness in 2009, according to a report released today by the Department of Health and Human Services' Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response.
In the future world of healthcare molded by the legislation of healthcare reform, doctors, hospitals and insurers are going to have to make changes to their business models if they want to be successful, according to an analysis by the Psilos Group.
Nine in 10 American workers either have no idea what their healthcare costs are likely to be in retirement or underestimate those costs, says a new consumer survey from Sun Life Financial.
Amedisys, a Louisiana-based home health and hospice company, plans to acquire the hospice operations of Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey.
Hospitals across the country have been rocked by nursing strikes over the last year. The coming months show no letup, which means that hospitals will continue to face major disruptions, both financial and otherwise.