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In 2014, recovery auditors identified $2.39 billion in overpayments and $173.1 million in underpayments repaid to providers.
FairChex found that, depending on the procedure, consumers looking at hospital ratings may choose a hospital for care not knowing they perform poorly in a certain procedure, effectively resulting in poor quality delivered at the highest cost.
According to Leapfrog, patient safety issues kill more than 200,000 patients a year.
On the other hand, 954 hospitals earned a C, 157 earned a D and 20 scored an F in the latest release of the group's Hospital Safety Score.
189 of the hospital's 289 beds have been relocated to the Advanced Pediatric Care Pavilion, a six-story tower that includes new technologies, family accommodations.
Cost savings are further bolstered by avoiding unnecessary surgeries and achieving lower rates of expensive complications.
HCA will sell its Oklahoma hospitals and terminate its lease of a children's hospital as other systems announced plans for an integrated network.
Affiliation will allow patients to get treatment closer to home, builds upon ongoing relationship between the two systems.
The company will use a sequencing test developed by the health system to find and target individual mutations within cancer tumors.
Five employees responded to the phishing emails, which allowed hackers unauthorized accessed, officials said.