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Carondelet to pay $35M fraud settlement
The Arizona-based provider has admitted to no wrongdoing.
By Katie Bo Williams • Aug. 19, 2014 -
Deep Dive
Healthcare spending may be flat, but medication spending is not
Pharmaceuticals are boosting otherwise-stagnant health spending.
By Tammy Worth • Aug. 19, 2014 -
Partners execs get big pay bumps
No other provider's executives in the greater Boston area earn more.
By Katie Bo Williams • Aug. 18, 2014 -
Community Health Systems announces massive data hack
The theft included the personal data of 4.5 million patients.
By Katie Bo Williams • Aug. 18, 2014 -
Deep Dive
How hospitals can benefit from value-based insurance
"We need to make sure health plans make it easy for patients to do the exact same things we want them to do," said Mark Fendrick, M.D., director of the University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design.
By Tammy Worth • Aug. 18, 2014 -
Deep Dive
The Friday Dive: Wal-Mart, VA referrals and False Claims lawsuits
Healthcare Dive's editor looks back on the biggest news from the last week.
By Katie Bo Williams • Aug. 15, 2014 -
The slow, painful death of fee-for-service primary care
As payers move toward an accountable care model, more traditional practices are feeling the squeeze.
By Anne Zieger • Aug. 14, 2014 -
Pay raises for non-profit hospital CEOs shoot up
The latest publicly-available data shows a sharp increase in salaries, despite public criticism.
By Anne Zieger • Aug. 12, 2014 -
HHS reports new Medicaid enrollment tops 7M
Total Medicaid enrollment is now 66 million, although some states are still resisting expanding the program under the ACA.
By Katie Bo Williams • Aug. 8, 2014 -
Partners HealthCare posts $34M operating loss
Sapped by a sicker-than-expected population and Sovaldi payouts, Partners has posted its largest quarterly operating deficit in years.
By Anne Zieger • Aug. 8, 2014 -
Deep Dive
The Friday Dive: The VA overhaul, Ebola and Cerner/Siemens
Healthcare Dive's editor looks back on the biggest news from the last week.
By Katie Bo Williams • Aug. 8, 2014 -
Facility fees fluctuate, physician fees flat
Facility fees for performing procedures can vary between institutions in some cases by as much as 1,680%.
By Sy Mukherjee • Aug. 7, 2014 -
Deep Dive
Admitting a patient: What does it cost hospitals?
Price variation across the country has come under increased scrutiny. But how does the expense to hospitals of admitting a patient vary from state to state?
By Katie Bo Williams • Aug. 6, 2014 -
Medibid: Surgery by the lowest bidder
Medibid founder Ralph Weber bills his service as a "free market alternative" to Obamacare. But critics raise safety and quality concerns.
By Sy Mukherjee • Aug. 6, 2014 -
The window of opportunity for Medicaid expansion
Expect a lobbying push as healthcare groups realize the bottom-line advantages to having more people in the program.
By Anne Zieger • Aug. 6, 2014 -
Is Tenet pulling out of its financial mess?
The for-profit hospital chain said that all of its growth and profitability metrics for the second quarter were better than expected—driven in large part by the ACA.
By Anne Zieger • Aug. 6, 2014 -
Cerner to acquire Siemens health IT division for $1.3B
The purchase makes Cerner the number-one EHR vendor in revenue.
By Katie Bo Williams • Aug. 6, 2014 -
Give the consumer some credit: Study shows patients price shop
Increased cost transparency for MRIs pushed 15% of patients to choose the cheaper alternative, prompting competitive pricing amongst providers and lowering costs overall.
By Katie Bo Williams • Aug. 5, 2014 -
ER closures cause death rates to rise at nearby hospitals
How high is the risk for inpatients admitted through neighboring EDs?
By Katie Bo Williams • Aug. 5, 2014 -
CHS settles whistleblower suit for $97M
The suit alleged that Community Health Systems habitually admitted patients who should have been treated on an outpatient basis in order to bill Medicare at the higher inpatient rates.
By Katie Bo Williams • Aug. 5, 2014 -
Is healthcare spending going up, down or both?
Depends on who you ask.
By Sy Mukherjee • Aug. 5, 2014 -
Deep Dive
Active shooters and other violence: How hospitals should prepare
Says security management expert Bill Nesbitt, "I know what can happen when you don't do it right."
By Judy Packer-Tursman • Aug. 5, 2014 -
French hospital opens wine bar for terminally ill
The hospital will provide "medically-supervised tastings" to patients and their friends and families at its palliative care center.
By Katie Bo Williams • Aug. 4, 2014 -
Deep Dive
The 15 largest nonprofit health systems
Who are the largest nonprofit health systems in America based on number of acute-care hospitals?
By Katie Bo Williams • Aug. 1, 2014 -
Only 6 states are extending the Medicaid pay hike to primary care docs
Does raising the pay rate increase the number of primary care physicians treating Medicaid patients and improve access to care? No one knows yet.
By Katie Bo Williams • July 31, 2014
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