There's no stopping Mary Higgins. The 95-year-old Wilmington, Delaware, resident lived in her own apartment and, with the help of her dear friend of 50 years, Regina Titus, mostly took care of herself ...

Years ago, I implemented what was considered the most advanced hospital Decision Support System (DSS) existing at the time. It was impressive, but complex, cumbersome and slow. It took a contingent of ...

Putnam County Memorial Hospital, a 15-bed critical access hospital in Unionville, Mo., is on shaky financial footing after ending questionable lab billings that landed it at the center of a $90 ...

All the way back in 1935, when the American Hospital Association published its first industrywide financial and statistics guide of U.S. hospitals, the authors recommended that nursing costs be ...

In an effort to create health care organizations that sustainably deliver high-quality, cost-effective care, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are using innovative payment models to ...

DENVER (CBS4) - Major hospitals hardly ever collect the full amount they bill patients and don't expect to, according to a sworn statement from a top administrator at a suburban Denver hospital. "I ...

1) Hospital cross-subsidization – Hospitals are paid much less by Medicare and Medicaid from the Government than by commercial insurance companies. Hospitals cannot raise prices to the Government, but ...

The midterm elections are over, government is divided, and the balance of power rests on razor-thin margins in both chambers of Congress. This could be a recipe for gridlock, where nothing gets done ...

Dozens of people every day could provide care or services at this stage, when a patient is moved to an inpatient room. This is a labor-intensive stage that typically lasts about four days. In addition ...