Healthcare on track to see 124 mass layoffs, affecting about 8,700 people by the end of the year November 5, 2012 | By Alicia Caramenico, Fierce Healthcare Healthcare remains a bright spot in an otherwise bleak employment outlook, adding 31,000 jobs in October, according to data released Friday from the U.S. Bureau of… Read more »
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What 5 Hospital CEOs Expect After Today’s Election
Written by Molly Gamble | November 05, 2012 , Becker’s Hospital Review Becker’s Hospital Review hosted its Hospital Strategy Roundtable on Nov. 1 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Chicago, bringing together 11 hospital industry leaders from across the country to discuss current challenges and opportunities facing the industry, as well as how today’s presidential election may… Read more »
5 Points Hospital CFOs Need to Know About the Bundled Payment Business Model
Written by Bob Herman | November 05, 2012 , Becker’s Hospital Review Before hospitals and health systems can dive into a bundled payment demonstration or pilot program, CFOs and other executive leadership must understand the impact bundled payments can have on their organizations as well as patients. The American Hospital Association and the Association of American… Read more »
Healthcare Reform Doesn’t Kill Jobs
Chelsea Rice, for HealthLeaders Media, October 29, 2012 Healthcare and the economy are two of the major issues in this year’s presidential election. Voters across the country are wondering what impact the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will have on the recovering economy, particularly employment. According to a report from The Urban Institute… Read more »
Betting on Value-Based Care
This article appears in the October 2012 issue of HealthLeaders magazine. Where are you placing your bets in the new reimbursement game? As the shift to value-based purchasing of healthcare services nears, in fits and starts and at different speeds in different areas, leaders of hospitals, health systems, and physician practices know they need to… Read more »
6 Scariest Issues in Healthcare Right Now
Written by Molly Gamble | October 30, 2012 , Becker’s Hospital Review With Halloween coming up, we at Becker’s Hospital Review thought it seemed as good a time as any to recap some of the most frightening and concerning issues in healthcare. Here are six of the scariest issues in healthcare right now. These events and… Read more »
Behind The Uninsured Numbers, A Diminishing Sense Of Urgency
By Jeff Goldsmith, Health Affairs Blog After a summer of disappointing economic news, the recent Census report on the uninsured was a rare bit of sunshine. The number of uninsured Americans declined by about 3 percent, or 1.34 million, to 48.6 million in 2011. This was the largest one-year numerical decline in twelve years. There… Read more »
NCQA Offers ACO Accreditation Review
Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media, September 24, 2012 Provider groups that claim to be accountable care organizations now have a way to prove it through an accreditation program offered by the National Committee for Quality Assurance. “Since the idea of ACOs became something that people got excited about in the last couple of years,… Read more »
Defined Contribution Pension Plans at Hospitals Reach Record High
Written by Bob Herman | September 25, 2012 , Becker’s Hospital Review Roughly 73 percent of employees who work at hospitals and health systems participate in a 403(b) defined contribution plan — the highest level of plan participation at healthcare organizations in the past 10 years, according to a study from the American Hospital Association and… Read more »
Consumer reporting system could come soon
September 24, 2012 | By Karen Cheung-Larivee, Fierce Healthcare Under a proposed federal reporting system, consumers could start reporting medical mistakes about hospitals, physicians, pharmacists and other providers. If the White House administration approves the pilot project, health officials could start collecting data as early as May 2013, The New York Times reported…. Read more »