Category: Modern Healthcare

CMS inspectors visit South Dakota reservation hospital

The emergency department at the Indian Health Service hospital on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation is under scrutiny again.

FDA gives drugmakers new ways to prove opioid disorder treatments work

The FDA has noticeably shifted its approach to drug approval, releasing new recommendations that give drug developers a wider array of outcome measures to prove the efficacy of new medication-assisted treatments for opioid use disorder.

Inside the Beaumont settlement: ‘Royal Family’ doctors, big paychecks, free offices

Some doctors at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak were given lucrative perks, paid in excess of $700,000 annually, given the use of hospital employees for their office practice—and still allowed to bill insurers, the government and…

Editorial: Paying for single-payer

Single-payer advocates need to articulate how their plan will be paid for. To generate broad-based political support, they will need to show that provider rates will be adequate; that insurers can have a role in the system; and that the public’s…

Week Ahead: Will the 2020 Census include a citizenship question?

Investors and journalists will be waiting to see if Tenet Healthcare will shed any more light on plans to sell off assets, Cardinal Health will report both its fourth-quarter and year-end results for fiscal 2018 and comments are due on proposed…

Q&A with CEO Barry Ostrowsky on RWJBarnabas’ $1 billion academic center investment, population health

Almost one year to the day after they signed a letter of intent to forge a partnership, RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers University launched a new academic and research health system.

Data Points: Fast-growing job categories in healthcare come with varied salaries

Healthcare managers, physicians and nurses seem to get all the attention regarding job growth and salaries, but there’s a whole bunch of occupations with varying degrees of expected growth and salaries.

Uncompensated-care audits coming in fall

The CMS’ payment formula in the first year places increased scrutiny on hospitals’ charity care and bad debt reporting, but the agency isn’t offering much detail on the audit process, which begins this fall.

Illinois hospital readies memorial for Springfield race riot that inspired NAACP

HSHS St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, Ill., is creating an exhibit to commemorate the town’s 1908 race riot that led to the foundation of the NAACP.

Engaging behavioral health patients through digital tools

Hospitals and health systems are turning — albeit slowly and cautiously — to digital tools to engage mental health patients, hoping to improve access and outcomes.