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Skip to main content Hospitals complying with quality reporting rules and the electronic health records meaningful-use policy would get a 2.8% net increase in Medicare reimbursements in fiscal 2024 under the hospital inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule published Monday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Hospital inpatient rates for the coming fiscal

Skip to main contentMH Illustration/Getty ImagesUnprofitable rural hospitals often merge with health systems, helping them stay open but also increasing the likelihood of price hikes...

Skip to main content A rural hospital in northern Idaho will stop delivering babies or providing other obstetrical care, citing a shifting legal climate in which recently enacted state laws could subject physicians to prosecution for providing abortions, among other reasons. Bonner General Health in Sandpoint will discontinue obstetrical services in mid-May. It also cited

A major breakthrough in healthcare delivery was recorded on Wednesday, 15th February, 2023, by the Akwa Ibom State Government, especially in the area of cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, as a team of medical doctors performed first full implantation of transveinus cardiac pacemaker on two patients, using state-of-the-art medical facilities installed at the newly remodelled General

The following is issued on behalf of the Hospital Authority:      The 71 general out-patient clinics (GOPCs) of the Hospital Authority (HA) have resumed normal service starting from today (January 30). GOPCs have strengthened their service and more than 2 000 quotas are reserved for COVID-19 patients daily...

Skip to main content January 18, 2023 03:01 PM MH Illustration/Getty Images The number of hospital merger and acquisition transactions reached a new low in 2022, although more deals are expected this year. Only 55 transactions reached the letter of intent or definitive agreement stages, the lowest number since 2009, the year financial advisory group

Patients requiring upper or lower gastrointestinal diagnostics normally have to present to a hospital or clinic for a tube-based endoscopy. The capacities for these procedures are constrained by infrastructure (rooms, endoscopes, etc.) and expert personnel (doctors, nurses, technicians and administrators). THE PROBLEM Even without the unparalleled pressure from the pandemic, meeting demand can be costly and