HealthLeadersMedia | A federal proposal to base 30% of hospital "incentive" payments on patient experience scores is meeting with strong resistance, in part because of concerns that culturally, patients in some parts of the country are just harder to please.
"We have to look at the...
ModernHealthcare | Six more states have asked to join the most expansive of the various legal challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which would give the law's critics the ability to say a majority of states opposed the law, if the judge...
HealthLeadersMedia | With rapid changes in healthcare comes a new vocabulary with terms and phrases every provider should know.
Culled from journal articles, conferences, blogs and other media, some of these phrases might not be all that new. But it's our bet that even if you've...
ADVANCE for Imaging and Radiation Therapy Professionals | The estimated total cost of cancer care in the U.S. in 2020 is expected to be $158 billion assuming the most recent observed patterns of incidence, survival, and cost remain the same. This represents a 27 percent...
HealthLeadersMedia.com | The past year saw many hospital mergers and acquisitions, with private, for-profit hospitals or capital management groups using a recovering economy to scoop up distressed public health systems.
The top 10 hospital mergers and acquisitions of 2010 were valued at about $3.8 billion, and one...
