The healthcare reform law will worsen the supply of primary care physicians treating Medicaid patients because temporary increases in pay would not attract enough physicians to meet the huge expansion in Medicaid recipients, according to a study by the Center…
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Even though federal and state governments and payors are making sweeping moves to contain the cost of healthcare, the prices of brand name prescription drugs are increasing rapidly, according to a Wall Street Journal news report.
Despite recent contract cancellations with group purchasing organizations Premier and Novation, medical device giant Medtronic's CFO is dispelling rumors that the company is shifting away from doing business with GPOs, according to a Mass Device news report.
SSM Orthopedics in St. Louis has acquired 14 private practice physicians, according to a STLtoday news report.
Frequent employee turnover can damage an ASC in multiple ways. Recruitment and hiring costs money that could be saved by keeping an employee at the center; staff cohesion is disrupted when employees leave; and every new staff member takes time…
When Chris Bockelman started as administrator of Foundation Surgery Center of Oklahoma in April 2010, he was told that three local pediatric ophthalmologists were off-limits for the surgery center — he could try to recruit them, but he wouldn't be…
Didier Pittet, MD, director of the infection control program at University of Geneva, Switzerland, and Mark R. Chassin, MD, FACP, MPP, MPH, president of The Joint Commission, speaking at a hand hygiene forum organized by Loyola University Medical Center and…
The following article is written by Caryl A. Serbin, RN, BSN, LHRM, executive vice president and chief strategy officer of SourceMedical. Although most financial analysts are forecasting a continuing slow economic recovery in 2011, some healthcare prognosticators are predicting…
Joan Russell, a former admitting office coordinator at Warren Hospital in Phillipsburg, N.J., has filed a lawsuit against the hospital, accusing the hospital of firing her after she reported errors in patient records, according to an Express-Times news report.
An unnamed nurse at St. Cloud (Minn.) Hospital has been suspended as the Drug Enforcement Administration and Food and Drug Administration conduct an investigation into her suspected involvement in 23 patients' infection, according to a St. Cloud Times news report.