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St. Francis Hospital & Health Center was preparing to close its doors, until MSMC Investors LLC stepped forward with a proposition to acquire the hospital.SSM Health Care, which owns and...
WASHINGTON – Selling tactics aimed at getting senior citizens to buy Medicare private plans came under attack last month in a Congressional hearing investigating how sales personnel were handlin...
Responding to evidence that beneficiaries need protection from predatory marketing practices, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday toughened standards for selling Medicare Advant...
Prime Healthcare Services, Inc., a hospital management company in southern California, has taken measures to implement public inpatient and outpatient regulatory reporting requirements in nine of its...
Officials of Washington County, Tenn. broke ground Wednesday on the $121 million construction of Franklin Woods Community Hospital, the first certified "green" building and the first "g...
WAKEFIELD, MA – Short of bringing an accountant into the operating room, hospitals don’t have many options for easily and accurately determining OR revenues and cost consumption.P...
WASHINGTON – Families USA’s report, “Dying for Coverage,” highlighted how inadequate healthcare condemns people to an early death and a lack of healthcare is a matter of life a...
LOUISVILLE, KY – They had the name, and the technology came in increments. All they needed was the motivation.Last month, officials at SHPS, the Louisville, Ky.-based provider of health...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is taking steps to make sure states are using the State Children's Health Insurance Program for the purpose of providing health insurance for low-incom...
HOUSTON – The processes of coding and charge capture are often complicated, time-consuming, paper-intensive tasks more suited to administrators than clinicians. To make those tasks easi...