hospitals
Hospitals fight penalties for delaying reports of cancer cases to state
The Connecticut Hospital Association (CHA) is fighting a proposed penalty that would charge hospitals as much as $1,000 a day for delaying reports of cancer cases to the state's tumor registry. CHA... Read more...
NY tentatively votes to cut healthcare spending by $2.3B
The New York state legislature has voted to cut health care spending by as much as $2.3 billion, which is about $1.2 billion less than Gov. David Patterson's original recommendations. If the budget... Read more...
NY hospital system settles suit over nurses' wages
Two-hospital health system Northeast Health of Albany, NY has agreed to pay $1.25 million to nurses who brought a lawsuit charging the area's hospitals of colluding to keep nurse wages low. As part... Read more...
CMS officials say they want RAC program to be fair
To date, the CMS's Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program has done little but strike fear into the hearts of providers, many of whom say their experiences with RACs have been less than pleasant.... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: A quiet consensus emerges on health reform
If you think there's little common ground to be found among the varied stakeholders in healthcare, you'd be wrong. Led by Senate veteran Edward Kennedy (D-MA), a group embracing hospitals, health... Read more...
Trend: Hospital layoffs mounting
As the economy struggles, growing numbers of hospitals across the U.S. are going through layoffs, in an effort to ride out what some have called the most financially-challenging time in decades. The... Read more...
Credit struggles force hospitals to cut back
According to survey results from both the American Hospital Association and the Healthcare Financial Management Association, several hospitals are being forced to delay spending in areas such as... Read more...
Adaptibility important for the future of hospitals
What are hospitals of the future going to have to do to keep up with increasing challenges in the field of healthcare? According to a new whitepaper put out by The Joint Commission entitled Health... Read more...
PA and NY hospitals may merge
Two hospitals in Pennsylvania and New York that are only about 10 miles apart, may reach across the state border and form a new parent company. Bradford Regional Medical Center, a 96-bed facility in... Read more...
NY offers grants to help facilities restructure
Not too long ago, New York legislators created a firestorm when they approved a plan to restructure the state's healthcare industry by force. The state is still experiencing fallout from the plan,... Read more...
