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Despite the increasing clout of HMOs in the 1990s, hospitals maintained a dominant position in determining healthcare pricing decisions.
Hospital-acquired infections killed 48,000 people and added $8.1 million to healthcare costs in 2006, according to a recent study in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Affiliation discussions between Los Angeles-area Downey Regional Medical Center and the five-hospital Daughters of Charity Health System have ended, leaving the hospital scrambling to find an affiliation partner as it emerges from bankruptcy.
Brent Grimes IS the Corporate Director of Patient Financial Services at INTEGRIS Health, a 13-hospital health system based in Oklahoma City, Okla., with 1,900 licensed beds and employing more than 2,500 physicians.
Grimes spoke with editor Richard Pizzi about some of the challenges his office is encountering, and overcoming, in 2010.
Annual compensation for primary care and specialty care groups in academic practice slowed between 2008 and 2009, increasing only 2.93 percent for primary care physicians and 2.43 percent for specialists, according to a report by the Medical Group Management Association.
States are poised to establish national high-risk health insurance pools within 90 days, according to leaders of the National Association of State Comprehensive Insurance Plans (NASCHIP). The high-risk pools are part of the newly passed healthcare reform law.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has approved Colorado Medicaid’s proposal to collect a hospital provider fee, which is expected to yield $1.2 billion after federal matching funds are included.
Some of the nation's leading universities, community colleges and research centers will receive $84 million to advance the widespread adoption and meaningful use of healthcare information technology.
Employment in the U.S. healthcare sector increased by approximately 26,800 jobs in March, while the national unemployment rate remained steady at 9.7 percent, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The University of California, San Diego has announced plans to build a state-of-the-art medical center on UC San Diego's east campus in La Jolla, Calif.