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By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:21 am | April 18, 2012
While President Barack Obama and the all-but-official Republican contender Mitt Romney gear up to debate how each would fashion future healthcare, the battle over a critical underpinning of the law is being fought not in the nation's capital, but in the states.
By Rene Letourneau | 10:08 am | April 18, 2012
Led by the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS), six healthcare organizations today announced the start of a major initiative to improve the medical liability system in the state.
By Kelsey Brimmer | 04:39 pm | April 17, 2012
Eight children's hospitals across Ohio are finding that collaboration has improved overall care quality, and they are now spreading their findings to 25 other children's hospitals nationwide this year.
By Mary Mosquera | 12:42 pm | April 17, 2012
With Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney frequently reasserting his plans to sign an Executive Order to grant all 50 states waivers that essentially serve as get-out-of-health-insurance-exchange-free cards, if he's elected, the future of HIX appears troubled.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 11:31 am | April 17, 2012
The Affordable Care Act weighs heavily on the minds of young doctors says a new study by the Physicians Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports doctors.
By Kelsey Brimmer | 10:40 am | April 17, 2012
Thomson Reuters released its 19th-annual study identifying the 100 top U.S. hospitals based on their overall organizational performance.
By Michelle McNickle | 02:56 pm | April 16, 2012
As the industry remains at a crossroads, many are looking to their supply chains to help drive change. And by turning their supply chains into a "strategic asset," organizations can have success controlling costs and increasing business efficiencies, according a recent whitepaper by healthcare management company GHX. Teran Andes breaks down six additional keys to seeing supply chain success.
By Kaiser Health News | 12:54 pm | April 16, 2012
Medicare plans on using resource use reports to tie physician reimbursement to quality and costs of care.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 12:00 pm | April 16, 2012
Sharona Ross, MD, bucked the trend by becoming a surgeon in a traditionally male dominated field. Today, she is a national voice advocating for women to become surgeons.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:55 am | April 16, 2012
A new study from IDC Health Insights finds that more than half of health plans will invest in trigger-based communications, which use data analytics to detect a consumer's current status, and automatically initiate relevant communications, to prompt plan members to take health and wellness action.