Risk Management
Gardens Regional Hospital and Medical Center, which operates in a depressed section of southern Los Angeles, has filed for bankruptcy.
Medicare is ambulatory care's favorite insurer when it comes to getting paid faster, according to a new peer60 survey of close to 800 ambulatory care providers.
Accountable care organizations in Medicare's Shared Savings program will now be held to regional spending benchmarks and not national ones, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said Monday, responding to criticism that the earlier rules made it too difficult for strong-performing providers to see savings.
A Connecticut podiatry office has notified 40,491 patients that cybercriminals may have compromised their protected health information by accessing its EHR database.
As value-based reimbursement leads healthcare providers to dig deep for new technologies and create team structures to handle the switch, smaller providers are struggling to cover the costs.
A national project called the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, has significantly helped to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections in hospitals, according to a study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The union for healthcare workers at Parkview Community Hospital in Riverside, California, claims the hospital violated the terms of a $29 million U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development loan by spending what could amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars on union busting.
UnitedHealth Group Inc. is leaving California's insurance exchange at the end of this year, state officials confirmed Tuesday.
An analysis of more than 4,100 U.S. hospitals shows less than 40 percent have the recommended stewardship programs in place to guide the use of antibiotics for patient care.
The federal government is already pushing providers towards more risk, so it's not surprising that many are going all in by sponsoring a health plan.