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NewsMost physicians not compensated for medical orders, tests, diagnostic imaging
Eighty-two percent of physicians are not compensated for prescriptions, lab tests, diagnostic imaging, hospital admissions and facility/surgery fees, according to a new survey conducted by Jackson Read more...
More weekend admits can ease overcrowding
Scheduling more patients for mid-week and weekend admissions can help hospitals avoid crowded conditions and the care problems overcrowding causes, according to a study in this month's Journal of Read more...
Patients spending less end-of-life time in hospitals
Medicare patients with severe chronic illnesses spent fewer days in the hospital while receiving more hospice care in 2007 than they did in 2003. However, those who were hospitalized were likely to Read more...
More hospitals place patients on observation
Efforts to tighten the criteria for hospital admissions or avoid costly readmissions may have an unintended consequence. As Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers closely scrutinize whether patients Read more...
Kindred profits drop 10 percent, but beat company estimate
Kindred Healthcare reported third-quarter net income of $4.9 million, or 12 cents per share--down from $5.5 million, or 14 cents per share, during the same period last year, the company announced Read more...
Medication, drug-related hospitalizations skyrocket
Hospital admissions among Americans ages 45 and older for medication and drug-related conditions doubled between 1997 and 2008, according to a report by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Read more...
Multi-hospital health systems: Best practices for high-quality care
What makes a high-performing healthcare system tick? More than half of all U.S. hospital admissions occur in the 200 largest hospital systems (a system has two or more general acute-care Read more...
AHIP: Medicare Advantage is better deal than FFS Medicare
Health plan industry trade group America's Health Insurance Plans has released a study concluding that Medicare Advantage plans may be doing a better job of controlling costs and preventing harm to Read more...
Moody's: Outlook for medical devices, products still negative
For reasons that will prove no surprise to readers--including depressed hospital admissions and weaker hospital access to capital--medical products and devicemakers are likely to face financial Read more...
Study: Hospitals spent $30B on avoidable admissions in '06
A new federal report suggests that in 2006, hospitals spent $30.8 billion on 4.4 million hospital admissions that might have been avoidable. The report, which was compiled by the Agency for Read more...
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