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Aug 11 2010

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Aggressive, drug-resistant staph infections caught in hospitals or from medical treatment are becoming scarcer, another sign of progress in a prevention effort that has become a national public health priority

Aug 09 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Look for the AHA to try an end-run around Berwick to rescind the cuts through Congress. If they’re smart, they’ll ask the same representatives that signed their letters to come through for them again via legislation.

Aug 09 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Facilities that have automated surveillance technologies to detect infectious organisms have also implemented best practices to prevent their spread

Aug 09 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Bureau of Labor Statistics preliminary data released Friday show that hospitals shed 2,300 jobs in July, after reporting 3,000 payroll additions in June, which followed 1,400 reductions in May.

Aug 03 2010

Massachusetts Reports

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

Although its reform effort appears to have gone amok, largely for cost reasons, the state of Massachusetts is producing a lot of useful data and research on medical service delivery,…

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Aug 03 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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The American Hospital Association is strongly protesting the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Service’s newly announced 2.9% final inpatient rule reimbursement cuts for Fiscal 2011

Aug 02 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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How much does an overnight stay in the ICU cost? $750? $6,000? Haven’t got a clue? Many hospitalists don’t know either.

Aug 02 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Hospitals are still waiting for word from new CMS chief Donald Berwick on whether they will get relief from the proposed 2.9% reimbursement cut from Medicare, known as the “coding offset”

Jul 28 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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The decision to admit as inpatient is a complex medical judgment that can only be made after a physician has taken into consideration a number of clinical and safety factors

Jul 27 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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New CMS Administrator Donald Berwick, MD, has not yet been on the job a month, and he’s already finding himself in the middle of one of those reimbursement tugs-of-war that seem to define modern healthcare.

Jul 26 2010

Urban Institute

By Kevin Roche Research No Comments

Urban Institute: How will hospitals be affected by health care reform?

Jul 23 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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Patients last year averaged a record of four hours and seven minutes spent in the nation’s emergency departments—a four minute increase over 2008 wait times, and a 31-minute increase since reports were made available in 2002

Jul 20 2010

HealthLeaders Media

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CMS last week expanded its popular Hospital Compare website – but still missing is the rate of healthcare-associated infections occurring in hospitals

Jul 19 2010

Reuters

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Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co was trumped by a higher-than-expected offer by TPG and Carlyle following last-minute negotiations at the weekend with Healthscope

Jul 17 2010

2010 Potpourri XXV

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

Another week, another potpourri, this time with items on workers' compensation drug spending, benefit consulting firm mergers, hospital readmissions, geographic variation in spending and use of mobile vans to deliver…

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