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Many hospitals are instructing surgeons to schedule all Medicare total knee arthroplasties as outpatient procedures.

A Florida-based community hospital is using AI tools to examine patient data and formulate new treatment protocols for deadly illnesses...

There are unique challenges to teaching knowledge and skills in the ICU setting such as patient urgency.

A multidisciplinary team designed a clinical pathway that improved institutional practice and quality of care.

An OIG audit found widespread noncompliance with IRF guidelines, with providers and CMS sharing the blame.

Three key takeaways from The Joint Commission's annual hospital executive briefings.

Post-recession spending growth is climbing towards pre-recession levels and is largely driven by brand-name drugs, ER visits, and outpatient surgeries.

Drug makers launch PR campaign blaming higher drug costs on hospital markups. Hospitals call the claims 'a brazen misrepresentation of...

Nurse-patient ratios can increase by 50% when neurocritical care RNs travel off the unit to accompany patients to tests.

Mayo 'shocked and deeply saddened by the wholly inaccurate and incomplete reporting' of alleged medical kidnapping. CNN stands by its...

The policy pleased some providers by eliminating a controversial 25% policy for long-term care hospitals.

The health system incorrectly billed for two types of severe malnutrition, which are classified as major complications or comorbidities that...