Quality and Safety
The State of Michigan is the latest entity to sue San Francisco-based prescription drug wholesaler McKesson Corp., for allegedly artificially inflating prices for certain brand name and generic drugs.
It seems that Medicare’s focus on reducing readmissions to hospitals is stimulating renewed attention to hospital discharge planning and communications.
The Cleveland Clinic will close East Cleveland's Huron Hospital within 90 days because of a decline in patients and the expense of maintaining one of the city's oldest healthcare facilities.
The Department of Health and Human Services has launched the Federally Qualified Health Center Advanced Primary Care Practice demonstration project, an Affordable Care Act initiative that will pay an estimated $42 million over three years to as many as 500 health centers to coordinate care for Medicare patients.
A bill introduced in the House of Representatives proposes to set minimum education and certification standards for technical personnel providing, planning and delivering medical imaging exams and radiation therapy treatments in the Medicare program.
Leaders of the Campaign for Better Care, a broad-based coalition of consumer organizations, have come out in support of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' proposed rule for accountable care organizations, saying CMS is putting patients first.
BancTec, a Dallas-based provider of business process outsourcing and transaction automation services, has been validated compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) by Trustwave, a provider of information security and compliance solutions.
The American Hospital Association (AHA) continues to collect and report valuable data from its web-based RACTrac survey.
The Bipartisan Policy Center's Health Project has launched a Task Force on Delivery System Reform and Health IT. The Task Force, co-chaired by former Senate Majority Leaders Tom Daschle and Bill Frist, now co-leaders of the Health Project, includes 24 health system experts and leaders.
Hundreds of disgruntled registered nurses from 31 states, including more than 150 from Massachusetts, plan to rally in Washington D.C. next week, according to the Massachusetts Nurses Association.