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Hospitals
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How to overcome challenges reporting hospital price data
Here’s how three reporters explained how Parkview Health’s prices became among the highest, harming consumers and employers.
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Emergency department boarding: Covering the hidden horror story
Emergency department boarding has worsened in recent years as hospitals face financial pressure to wring out excess inpatient capacity.
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AHCJ’s Hospital Inspections site is back online with updates
The site contains an easily searchable database of hospital inspection reports showing violations from January 2011 to the present.
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Series focuses on stressed rural hospitals that may need to close
Given all the concern about the failure of rural hospitals, it may seem counterintuitive that some hospitals in rural America…
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Inspection data could prompt stories about COVID-19 problems in hospitals
AHCJ has updated its public HospitalInspections.org website to give people a better glimpse of potential COVID-19 problems at some hospitals…
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Employers and insurers paid hospitals 247% more than Medicare rates, new study shows
Research released today shows that from 2016 through 2018, self-insured employers and commercial health insurers in 49 states and the…
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Are hospitals training staff to adequately treat delirium in older adults?
Hospitalized older adults who take atypical, or second-generation, antipsychotics for delirium were at increased risk of death from cardiopulmonary arrest,…
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Expert and author traces history of patient safety movement, suggests stories
Yes, there’s a lot going on these days. Impeachment. Potential war. The 2020 election. (Forget for a minute the cynic’s…
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New rule allows Medicare reimbursement to ambulatory surgery centers for knee replacements, stents
Knee replacement surgeries and stenting procedures will now be reimbursed in free-standing ambulatory surgery centers for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries as…
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CMS proposal would make knee replacements, stents reimbursable at ambulatory surgery centers
Who reads Medicare rules? Nobody, right? They’re long, boring, hard to read because of the small type in narrow columns…