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Frank Barrett, chief financial officer and executive vice president at Miami's Jackson Health System, has resigned after five years in the position.
Health plans have launched an initiative to streamline the delivery of care by reducing the time, effort and expense for the paperwork required for each patient office visit.
Primary care physicians in Massachusetts are seeing measurable improvements in important aspects of healthcare quality, according to Massachusetts Health Quality Partners.
The Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania is opposing Gov. Ed Rendell’s proposed 2010-2011 state budget, which could cut hospital Medicaid payments by nearly $31.9 million.
The Senate is working on legislation that would extend the federal increase in Medicaid assistance that states are receiving from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) through June 2011.
A new survey from VHA, Inc., a national healthcare group purchasing organization, reveals that patients take numerous items from hospital rooms when they are discharged, costing hospitals at least $52 million annually.
The New Jersey Physician Workforce Policy Task Force wants to prevent “an unprecedented shortfall” in the number of physicians in the state available to treat patients.
The Cook Children's Health Care System of Forth Worth, Texas, has signed a deal to implement supply chain, human resources and contract management software applications in an effort to improve its business processes.
Orlando Health, a not-for-profit network of hospitals and clinical care centers in central Florida, has upgraded its financial and compliance technology in preparation for Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) audits.
In a survey of 178 companies in Minnesota and western Wisconsin, employers identified affordable healthcare as the greatest obstacle to business expansion.