HealthLeadersMedia.com | October 29 - Hospitals are putting more patients into observation status for longer than 48 hours instead admitting them, in part out of fear of what happened at one hospital this month, the American Hospital Association says.
Observation status is a Medicare billing category for...
USAToday.com | October 28 - HAMMOND, La. — At the Cypress Pointe Surgical Hospital here, construction workers scrambled on a recent day to turn a mud pit into a parking lot and put other finishing touches on the $35 million physician-owned facility.
They are on a...
ModernHealthcare.com | October 26 - Altering payment mechanisms and care delivery structures aren't enough to achieve a successful accountable care organization, according to a new report examining ACO experiences in California.
The report, by the Oakland, Calif.-based Integrated Healthcare Association, a well-respected quality and affordability improvement group,...
DiagnosticImaging.com | October 25 - Healthcare reform is game changer but nobody can yet fully articulate the impact of the new rules. How do you plan for the future when there are so many unknowns? This is the second article in a series that examines...
HealthLeadersMedia.com | October 22 - The average, per capita cost of providing healthcare services in the United States rose by 7.32% for the past 12 months ending in August, a rate of inflation wildly above the 1.1% overall inflation for the same period, according to new...
