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By: John Commins, for HealthLeaders Media, April 28, 2011
A major investor with Community Health Systems, Inc. is urging fellow shareholders of the for-profit hospital chain to vote against the re-election of three board members for their alleged improper oversight of Medicare billing practices, a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission reveals.
By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, April 29, 2011
Emergency department visits have increased at twice the rate of the U.S. population and less than 8% of those patients have non-urgent medical conditions, says the president of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
By: James Carroll, for HealthLeaders Media, April 29, 2011
An update from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reveals a significant increase in overpayments and underpayments over last quarter, signifying that many facilities may not have a comprehensive process for managing Recovery Audit Contractor requests.
By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, April 29, 2011
The much-anticipated rules governing accountable care organizations might perpetuate – however inadvertently – a care delivery system that is racially and ethnically unbalanced, according to a commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
By: Margaret Dick Tocknell, for HealthLeaders Media, April 28, 2011
Chicago-based Alexian Brothers Health System is to become part of St. Louis-based Ascension Health, the Catholic health systems have announced. Financial terms were not disclosed.
By: Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, April 28, 2011
The Affordable Care Act's penalties and incentives and talk of medical homes and accountability have set the stage for a linguistic battleground. We're starting to argue about individual words, but perhaps we're forgetting what the fight is about.
By: Joe Cantlupe, for HealthLeaders Media, April 28, 2011
At least 36 states have adopted laws that generally bar physicians' expressions of compassion or sympathy about pain, suffering, or the death of a patient to a patient or family as an admission of liability in medical malpractice suits. It's a start, say two industry groups.
By: April 5, 2011
Neurological service line success is all about managing the collision of technology, research, and care coordination. Get strategies for managing the collision on May 18, live from Barrow Neurological Institute with invited thought leaders from St. John Providence Health System and St. Luke Hospital. http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/rounds/
By: April 14, 2011
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By: April 14, 2011
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