Acute Care
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia faces separate lawsuits accusing it of sending reimbursement money for emergency room care directly to patients -- and not to the hospital because it isn't part of the insurer's network. That's costing the hospitals money since patients don't always turn over the funds, according to the lawsuits, filed by Polk Medical Center in northwest Georgia and Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles
A new study offers surprising findings about end-of-life care.
Running its own health plan has allowed this Wisconsin system to design a homemade value-based reimbursement model.
Adeptus Health Inc. has appointed Ricardo Martinez, M.D. their new Chief Medical Officer. The large-scale operator of free-standing emergency rooms made the announcement Friday.
Aspirus Ontonagon Hospital broke ground this week on a new emergency department expansion and hospital renovation project that it hopes will provide a higher level of urgent care for Michigan's Ontonagon County.
Digital health company Prime Surgeons will be launching an online network of surgeons to provide patients with access to surgical care on-demand, the group announced this week.
Alignment between the two systems will enhance Texas Health's network of care centers, which includes hospitals and outpatient facilities, that serve 7 million people in and around the Dallas-Fort Worth region.
A new study of the prevalence carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae in 16 Washington, D.C. hospitals claims the dangerous, drug-resistant superbug is very present in area hospitals and healthcare facilities.
Acute care management provider CEP America is partnering with three California healthcare providers -- Sierra View Medical Center, Neighborhood Healthcare in Escondido, and the Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County -- to deliver medical services to patients beginning this month.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday proposed new rules to discharge planning requirements for long-term care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, critical access hospitals and home health agencies.