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"We have a pretty robust safety reporting culture here," says Carrie Tuskey, director of risk management at Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System. But she admits, "It takes a long time to change the mindset in healthcare around error reporting." Here,…
The gap between Medicare payment rates and physician practice expenses continues to grow, according to a Medscape report.
HHS has issued a memo requiring all private Medicare plans give beneficiaries — including same-sex couples — access to equal coverage in nursing homes where their spouses live.
This past May, Moody's Investors Service put out a red flag to hospitals. The credit rating agency said if hospitals and health systems want to have a shot of success in the future, they will have to focus on quantitatively…
James T. Lehner, MD, practices with Orthopaedic Center for Spinal and Pediatric Care in Centerville, Ohio. He provides care at Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, and at Dayton Children's Hospital, where he previously served as chief of staff. He…
In a Physicians Practice article, Carol Stryker, a principal at Symbiotic Solutions, discusses three reasons why staff fearing the physician is ultimately hurtful for practices.
Last week, Moody's Investors Service issued its annual medians report for nonprofit hospitals, finding that providers had a strong balance sheet in fiscal year 2012 but profitability metrics were down compared with FY 2011.
The relative youth of accountable care organizations make the model ripe for further study and analysis. Are there more Medicare or commercial ACOs? Do physicians regard the model differently based on their employment status? How much savings can ACOs generate…