AAOS President Joseph Zuckerman, MD, says he has told AMA executives that he is unhappy with the organization's endorsement last month of the U.S. House's healthcare reform bill.
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An analysis of hospital finances by Thomson Reuters finds that the median profit margin of U.S. hospitals increased from 0.17 percent in the third quarter of 2008 to 3.1 percent in the first quarter of 2009, according to a release…
Oneof the most common security violations we see in surgery centers and other medical facilities involves inappropriate user names and passwords. We frequently see user names and passwords that are shared between/among employees, or are easy to guess, which makes…
A new physicians group that opposes a government-run healthcare plan has issued results of a nationwide poll it conducted, finding that 70 percent of specialty doctors oppose current healthcare reform proposals, according to a release from the group, the American…
The U.S. government announced nearly $1.2 billion in grants to help hospitals and other healthcare providers implement electronic health records, according to a Reuters report.
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Physicians commenting online about the current health reform legislation say it does not address several key causes of healthcare inflation, such as malpractice pay-outs, billing procedures and emphasis on preventive medicine, according to Sermo, a Web site exclusively for physicians…
The ASC Association has announced the formation of a new entity called the ASC Advocacy Committee, which will unite the ASC Association and the ASC Coalition to focus becoming the best possible representation for ASCs in advocacy, according to a…
The Orthopaedic Joint Reconstruction Program at 250-bed Gottlieb Memorial Hospital in Melrose Park, Ill., achieved an outstanding score in the 99th percentile range in the first quarter of 2009 on CMS' patient satisfaction survey, the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare…
The America's Health Insurance Plans has commissioned a report which, not surprisingly, claims some out-of-network physicians are charging patients fees as high as 1,000 percent of Medicare reimbursements for the same service in the same geographic area.
A new report by A.M. Best puts the survival of many small and midsize not-for-profit hospitals in question, due to lack of economies of scale, poor payor mix, higher overhead costs, fewer high-margin specialty service lines and an overall lower…