Quality and Safety

What a year it has been for the Accountable Care Act. In commemoration of the law's first birthday on March 23, here's a glimpse of the year in quotes.

Hospitals are falling short of the Joint Commission's language access requirements for patients with limited English, according to a new report.

Hundreds, if not thousands, of physicians are scammed by their own patients every year.

Accountable care organizations may be the future of the healthcare delivery system, but disagreement exists about the economic impact on providers.

In 2002, New Mexico made it legal to allow certain psychologists who completed specific training to prescribe psychiatric medicines.

The Department of Labor has released a competency model for the long-term care industry that officials hope will solve long-standing issues of low wages and a high staff turnover rate.

The Department of Health and Human Services has announced a new program, developed under the Affordable Care Act, that's aimed at eliminating medical errors and reducing healthcare costs on a national scale.

Community Health Systems officials say a lawsuit filed by Tenet Healthcare that claims CHS overbilled Medicare by $280 billion from 2006-2009 is 'baseless' and shows Tenet is engaged in a 'scorched earth' defense of CHS' hostile takeover bid launched in early December.

HealthGrades, an online healthcare quality rating and services company, has identified the top 10 cities for emergency medical care, based on a study of 7 million Medicare patient records from 2007 to 2009.

In Nevada, state officials are investigating whether payments to a group of cardiologists from a heart device company were legitimate consulting fees or an inducement to the doctors to use the company’s products.