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- 1From: Modern Healthcare. (Vol. 37, Issue 35)Byline: Shawn Rhea A newly founded group focused on medical tourism says it hopes to represent the interest of reputable healthcare providers and other businesses working in the burgeoning field while also providing...
- 2From: Modern Healthcare. (Vol. 37, Issue 35)Louisiana State University agreed to pay $190,000 to Donald Smithburg, who served as head of LSU's Health Care Services Division from 2004 until earlier this summer, to avoid the cost of future litigation concerning...
- 3From: Modern Healthcare. (Vol. 37, Issue 35)Byline: Vince Galloro The analyst who rocked Tenet Healthcare Corp. five years ago with reports on the company's reliance on Medicare outlier payments was making Tenet uncomfortable again last week. Another analyst,...
- 4From: Modern Healthcare. (Vol. 37, Issue 35)Byline: Jessica Zigmond Louisiana will soon have a new official to oversee its healthcare system. Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco appointed Roxane Townsend as secretary of Louisiana's Department of Health and Hospitals,...
- 5From: Modern Healthcare. (Vol. 37, Issue 35)Of course you're working, it just looks like you're wasting time Outliers wouldn't dare accuse anyone of wasting time on the Internet at work. But then, perhaps whoever used an HHS computer to tweak the Wikipedia entry...
- 6From: Modern Healthcare. (Vol. 37, Issue 35)Byline: Melanie Evans The National Center for Healthcare Leadership and GE Healthcare have inked an unusual deal that its architects say will boost exposure for their respective management products and services and...
- 7From: Modern Healthcare. (Vol. 37, Issue 35)Byline: Vince Galloro After considering two for-profit hospital companies as a possible partner, Baptist Health System of East Tennessee plans to remain in the not-for-profit Knoxville family. Baptist and St. Mary's...
- 8From: Modern Healthcare. (Vol. 37, Issue 35)Byline: Gregg Blesch Healthcare lawyers are bracing for changes in the way the CMS bars doctors from referring patients for government-paid services at facilities in which the doctors have a financial stake, either...
- 9From: Modern Healthcare. (Vol. 37, Issue 35)Byline: Gregg Blesch A former chief financial officer of George L. Mee Memorial Hospital in King City, Calif., paid his personal credit card account with hospital funds for at least a year before he was fired in 2004,...
- 10From: Modern Healthcare. (Vol. 37, Issue 35)Byline: Jessica Zigmond When it comes to federal grant funding, good news travels fast-so fast that sometimes the recipient is the last to know. That was the case last week for Joe Dawsey, executive director of the...
- 11From: Modern Healthcare. (Vol. 37, Issue 35)Byline: Shawn Rhea A long-rumored move by MedAssets to become the first publicly traded company with roots in the group purchasing industry raises big questions for GPOs and their members. Industry executives are...
- 12From: Modern Healthcare. (Vol. 37, Issue 35)Byline: Jennifer Lubell Some executives in the ambulatory surgery center industry say they are skeptical that new proposed conditions for Medicare coverage announced last week will do much to improve patient care,...
- 13From: Modern Healthcare. (Vol. 37, Issue 35)Byline: Rebecca Vesely The CMS' decision to end Medicare payments for preventable errors, injuries and infections is likely only the first phase in an industrywide change in how these conditions are reimbursed. That's...
- 14From: Modern Healthcare. (Vol. 37, Issue 35)Boston Scientific Corp., Natick, Mass., agreed to pay $16.75 million to settle a lawsuit filed by 35 states and the District of Columbia against the company's wholly owned subsidiary Guidant Corp., now known as Boston...
- 15From: Modern Healthcare. (Vol. 37, Issue 35)Byline: Melanie Evans Ascension Health named five of its executives to oversee regional operations in a half-dozen states as part of a reorganization of the 64-hospital system unveiled in December 2006. The handful...
- 16From: Modern Healthcare. (Vol. 37, Issue 35)Byline: Charles S. Lauer Maybe I've simply been lucky because after having both hips and a knee replaced over a period of three years at a Chicago hospital, I came away impressed with the quality of the care I...
- 17From: Modern Healthcare. (Vol. 37, Issue 35)Byline: Rep. Dennis Kucinich In a way and with an emphasis never before seen in political discourse and debate in the U.S., the issue of healthcare reform has taken center stage as one of the top priorities among...
- 18From: Modern Healthcare. (Vol. 37, Issue 35)Byline: Rebecca Vesely Although UnitedHealth Group got a green light from the Nevada Insurance Commissioner last week to acquire Sierra Health Services, the $2.6 billion deal could still be blocked by other regulatory...
- 19From: Modern Healthcare. (Vol. 37, Issue 35)Byline: Cinda Becker Hospitals are plagued with sore subjects that have nothing to do with clinical care, and perhaps the sorest subject of all surrounds billing practices. The charge-based system that the hospital...
- 20From: Modern Healthcare. (Vol. 37, Issue 35)Byline: Neil McLaughlin News story: The Census Bureau reports that the number of Americans lacking health insurance rose to a record total of 47 million in 2006. The increase of 2.2 million-a jump of 4.9%-is the...