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Two U.S. health systems, AtlantiCare in Egg Harbor Township, N.J., and Heartland Health in St. Joseph, Mo., have won the 2009 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.
As the Senate continues to debate its healthcare reform bill, Senate minority leaders Tom Coburn, MD (R-Okla.), Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and David Vitter (R-La.) filed an amendment this week that would call on the president, his administration, White House staff, members of Congress and their staff to enroll in the government-run public option, should it pass.
Verisk Health, Inc., a Waltham, Mass.-based developer of healthcare data analytics, has released DxCG Risk Solutions 3.0, a suite of risk adjustment and predictive modeling products designed to help healthcare organizations analyze, predict, manage and minimize healthcare risk and costs associated with commercial, Medicare and Medicaid populations.
In order to maximize financial incentives, Kern Medical Center of Bakersfield, Calif., has plans to employ Medsphere Systems’ OpenVista electronic health record by the end of 2010.
National Health Investors, Inc., has agreed to purchase back six Florida skilled nursing facilities from Care Foundation of America, Inc., for $67 million, 10 years after selling the six nursing homes to CFA for just over $32 million.
How healthcare organizations improve project management in a time of limited financial resources was a hot topic last week at the World Health Care Leadership Summit on Project and Portfolio Management for Healthcare Executives in Boston.
Medicare Advantage, a program that offers HMO-type coverage for Medicare beneficiaries, was strongly criticized by President Barack Obama in 2009.
The durable medical equipment industry was threatened at every turn in 2009, as fighting over the DME Medicare competitive bidding final rule was intense.
The Medicare trust fund will be exhausted by 2017, two years earlier than originally projected, according to the annual report released in summer 2009 by the Medicare Trustees.
In a boon for safety-net hospitals, the federal government increased its allotment for “Disproportionate Share Hospitals” by an additional $268 million in 2009.