Quality and Safety
An Arizona patient awaiting a liver transplant who was removed from the waiting list as a result of state Medicaid budget cuts has died - the second such person to die since the cuts were announced on Oct. 1, 2010.
The Puget Sound Health Alliance has announced that 12 teams from six hospitals across Washington will participate in a nationwide effort to improve healthcare quality.
In a move that dramatically changes how it pays end-stage renal disease facilities, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on Wednesday issued a final rule that will allow payment adjustments based on how well facilities meet dialysis performance standards.
Hospital designers are turning to nurses to help design better care space, according to a new report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
With access to the Medicare claims database to track Medicare expenditures, the Wall Street Journal recently reported, as part of a series on Medicare expenditures, that the Norton Hospital in Louisville, Ky., performed the third-most spinal fusions on Medicare patients in the country!
Two healthcare networks in North Carolina's competitive Research Triangle are waging a sometimes-heated battle for affiliations with local physician practices.
According to a new study, one in six physicians in 2008 reported that their practice owned or leased advanced imaging equipment.
Despite tort reform efforts aimed at reducing malpractice risk, a recent study indicates physicians are still worried about lawsuits, leading them to practice defensive medicine and driving up healthcare costs.
My crystal ball is a little foggy so I decided to ask my Twitter followers to help compile a list of health care predictions for 2011. I've integrated my thoughts with theirs and organized the predictions into four themes.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will soon be outfitted with new state-of-the-art fraud fighting analytic tools to prevent wasteful and fraudulent payments in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.