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Pay for no extra performance?

November 20, 2008 — 12:15pm ET | By Anne Zieger
Pay-for-performance is obviously a very popular model at this point, but what about when there are extra payments for no extra performance? University and community hospitals are protesting to... Read more...

Doctor ownership of hospitals faces legal setback

September 15, 2008 — 11:01am ET | By Anne Zieger
Put simply, physician-owned hospitals make other hospitals livid, as they often scoop up profitable business and (to hear the non-physician-owned hospitals tell it) suck the lifeblood out of... Read more...

Case study: Caritas CEO ends required MD referrals

June 20, 2008 — 12:12pm ET | By Anne Zieger
Boston's Caritas Christi Health Care is dropping a strategy which used doctors at its community hospitals to prop up its central tertiary care facility. The health system, one of the few freestanding... Read more...

PA hospitals' overall financial health improves

June 12, 2008 — 6:59am ET
A new report from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council concluded that while the overall financial health of the state's hospitals improved, small community hospitals in rural areas... Read more...

U.S. Reps give boost to physician-owned hospitals

April 11, 2008 — 6:59am ET
In recent times, physician-owned hospitals have taken a lot of fire in Congress--but... Read more...

MA may limit Boston metro hospital expansion

April 10, 2008 — 6:59am ET
Now here's something you don't see every day. Rather than simply letting market forces prevail, Massachusetts health authorities proposed this week to protect suburban hospitals from competitive... Read more...

"Free care" visits to Mass. hospitals plummeting

February 15, 2008 — 7:59am ET
A new study by the Massachusetts Hospital Association has concluded that the number of "free care" visits to hospitals have fallen dramatically over the past three years. Such visits declined 28... Read more...

CA hospitals must report serious staph cases

February 15, 2008 — 7:59am ET
California's public health department has issued an order requiring hospitals to report some staph infections resulting in death or an ICU stay to local health authorities. It's not focused on the... Read more...

Sutter nurses threaten to strike

December 3, 2007 — 7:59am ET
After several weeks of fruitless discussion, the California Nurses Association has warned Sutter Health that it nurses plan to stage a two-day walkout in mid-December. Hospitals affected include... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: MO childrens' hospitals open EDs in other facilities; MD hospital uses urgent care to cut ED traffic; and much more

November 29, 2007 — 7:59am ET
> Trend: St. Louis-area childrens' hospitals are opening up specialized emergency departments within the EDs of other community hospitals. Read more...
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