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� Moody’s predicts more bad news for nonprofit hospitals - Sept. 2, 2013
� Leapfrog unveils way to gauge cost of medical errors - Aug. 19, 2013
� Brief: Health IT identifies high-risk patients to cut readmissions - Aug. 19, 2013
� Brief: More hospitals sharing electronic health data than in 2008 - Aug. 19, 2013
� Medicare sticks to clock-watching on hospital observation policy - Aug. 19, 2013
� Court bars collecting fees beyond Medicaid pay - Aug. 16, 2013
� Doctors expect more pressure from practice finances - Aug. 6, 2013
� More hospitals earn good grades for LGBT-friendly policies - July 29, 2013
� Health IT projects stalled by staffing shortages - July 29, 2013
� Physician integration proves costly for some hospitals - July 22, 2013
� Physicians find solutions in the face of disaster - July 15, 2013
� Hospitals see alignment with doctors as boon to patient care - July 15, 2013
� Tenet says Vanguard purchase will lead to more hospital deals - July 9, 2013
� How high court bias rulings will affect medical workplace suits - July 8, 2013
� Medicare doctor pay data release could be in next SGR bill - July 1, 2013
� Column: When a patient shuns care, doctor checklist includes compromise - July 1, 2013
� Redesigning the patient experience for safer care - June 24, 2013
� Medicare advisers critical of both SGR and hospital pay - June 24, 2013
� Flu shot mandate yields results without scaring off health workers - June 24, 2013
� Hospital jobs turning into a doctors’ market - June 24, 2013
� ACA likely to produce more hospital consolidation - June 17, 2013
� Study gauges effect of patient engagement on health costs - June 11, 2013
� Brief: Massive study yields answers on MRSA prevention - June 10, 2013
� Connected Coverage: Hospitals are in a hiring mood — for the right doctors - June 3, 2013
� CMS takes second look at Medicaid hospital pay cuts - June 3, 2013
� Doctors increasingly shut out of hospitals' patient experience efforts - May 27, 2013
� “Seismic shift” lifts primary care's impact on hospital revenues - May 20, 2013
� Unwanted price to hospitalists’ growth -- more liability suits - May 20, 2013
� Targeted C. diff screenings uncovered asymptomatic infections - May 20, 2013
� With Medicare posting hospital charges, are doctors next? - May 20, 2013
� Hospital waste initiative provides lessons for physicians - May 14, 2013
� Medicare proposes limits on hospital observation stays - May 13, 2013
� Brief: Hospitals report drops in pressure ulcers, harmful falls - May 13, 2013
� Brief: Moody’s downgrades small hospitals with lower revenues - May 13, 2013
� Patient safety push boosts flu shots among hospital workers - May 13, 2013
� Medical directors’ duties linked to quality metrics - May 7, 2013
� Brief: Nevada hospital accused of patient dumping - May 6, 2013
� Brief: Many smaller hospitals not ready for ICD-10 - May 6, 2013
� Physician-owned hospitals seize their moment - April 29, 2013
� Calming a hospital culture clash - April 29, 2013
� Patient satisfaction with health care hits two-decade high - April 29, 2013
� Nonprofit hospitals feel pinch of sequester - April 23, 2013
� Obama budget signals quicker trigger on Medicare pay cuts - April 22, 2013
� Hospitals are buying, but doctors don't have to sell - April 22, 2013
� Emergency doctors promote patient handoff checklist - April 17, 2013
� Brief: New guidance issued on preventing C. diff - April 8, 2013
� Purchasing medical practices drags down for-profit hospital finances - April 2, 2013
� Hospital interest in acquiring physician practices grows - April 1, 2013
� Quality effort yields big drop in death rate at hospitals - April 1, 2013
� Hospitals found lacking in patient satisfaction efforts - March 27, 2013
� Brief: Drug errors main result of distractions at hospitals - March 25, 2013
� Brief: Costs impede growth of paired kidney exchanges - March 25, 2013
� Brief: Moody’s health care debt downgrade biggest in 20 years - March 18, 2013
� Warning sounded on demoralized health care work force - March 18, 2013
� Medicare readmissions drop for 3 high-profile conditions - March 15, 2013
� 5 steps for employed physicians to resolve contract disputes - March 11, 2013
� Clinical integration model gets FTC green light - March 11, 2013
� 2 cases test power of medical staff bylaws claims - March 6, 2013
� Medicaid's mental health emergency - March 4, 2013
� Brief: Dialysis catheters linked to higher death rates - March 4, 2013
� Brief: Senate bill would alter Medicare nursing home mandate - March 4, 2013
� Patient experience is next measurement in value-based care - March 4, 2013
� Toolkit offers new ideas for preventing hospital falls - Feb. 26, 2013
� Health system brands go national - Feb. 25, 2013
� Multimedia: Who is affiliated where? - Feb. 25, 2013
� Brief: EHRs not ready for quality reporting, hospital groups say - Feb. 18, 2013
� Construction booming in medical office building market - Feb. 18, 2013
� Hospitals promote economic role amid talk of federal cuts - Feb. 13, 2013
� Brief: Hospitals stumble in preventing harmful “never events” - Feb. 11, 2013
� Moody’s: Doctor integration vital to stronger hospital finances - Feb. 11, 2013
� Quality demo cuts repeat hospital Medicare trips by nearly 6% - Feb. 5, 2013
� Brief: Arizona Medicaid expansion to get boost from hospital taxes - Feb. 4, 2013
� Supreme Court closes door on late appeals of Medicare underpayments - Feb. 4, 2013
� Brief: Cost not a factor in physician orders of imaging tests - Feb. 4, 2013
� Brief: Union membership declines among health care professionals - Feb. 4, 2013
� Column: Firing hinges on employed doctor's medical judgment - Feb. 4, 2013
� Cardiologists leaving independent practice at rapid pace - Feb. 4, 2013
� Brief: Drug errors rarely disclosed to hospital patients - Jan. 28, 2013
� Surgical errors: In ORs, “never events” occur 80 times a week - Jan. 21, 2013
� VA finds shorter stays don't lead to readmissions - Jan. 16, 2013
� EHR-related errors soar but few harm patients - Jan. 14, 2013
� Physician employment: Build a contract that suits you - Jan. 14, 2013
� Brief: Job creation at physician offices and hospitals holds steady - Jan. 14, 2013
� Bigger incentives expected for job-hunting physicians - Jan. 7, 2013
� Brief: GAO calls for more oversight of Medicaid hospital charity pay - Jan. 7, 2013
� Incentive pay prevalence echoes boom in employed physicians - Jan. 2, 2013
� Despite warning, some hospitals get harsh patient safety grade - Dec. 31, 2012
� ACA tops list of 5 biggest physician concerns for 2013 - Dec. 31, 2012
� Hospitals raise alarm over sicker Medicare population - Dec. 31, 2012
� Brief: Hospital employment more attractive to surgeons - Dec. 24, 2012
� Column: Employed doctors don't have to lose social media voice - Dec. 24, 2012
� Brief: Physicians uneasy when patient is hospital philanthropist - Dec. 24, 2012
� Preventable birth injuries cut after proven interventions are bundled - Dec. 19, 2012
� Autonomy or employment — doctors must not be forced to choose - Dec. 17, 2012
� Supreme Court to decide how late is too late on Medicare pay appeals - Dec. 17, 2012
� Brief: 31 senators call for higher Medicare pay for rural hospitals - Dec. 17, 2012
� Hospitals expected to benefit two ways from Medicaid expansion - Dec. 10, 2012
� 4 essentials to physician-hospital alignment (MGMA-ACMPE meeting) - Dec. 10, 2012
� Physician groups eye mergers but blindsided by legal fights - Dec. 10, 2012
� Drug shortages worsen following pharmacy-related meningitis scare - Dec. 10, 2012
� Hospital chain�s new physician recruiting tool: adding residents - Dec. 10, 2012
� New ED drama? Hospitals demand upfront fee for nonemergencies - Dec. 3, 2012
� Story Comment: AMA meeting: Delegates adopt physician employment principles - Nov. 26, 2012
� American Hospital Assn. sues over retroactive Medicare pay denials - Nov. 19, 2012
� What a buyer wants in your physician practice - Nov. 19, 2012
� Doctors describe pressures driving them from independent practice - Nov. 19, 2012
� Safety-net hospitals warn of ACA�s uncompensated care crunch - Nov. 12, 2012
� Medical practice acquisitions may see uptick after election - Nov. 12, 2012
� Hospitals urged to end punitive responses to error reports - Nov. 5, 2012
� More than half of hospitals don�t screen all ICU patients for MRSA - Oct. 31, 2012
� Hospitals seeking to hire doctors who �play well with others� - Oct. 23, 2012
� �Frequent flyers� not seen as abusing emergency departments - Oct. 22, 2012
� Court: Medical staff bylaws are not contracts between doctors and hospitals - Oct. 17, 2012
� Culture clash between insurer, hospital system results in merger meltdown - Oct. 15, 2012
� Task force seeks breakthrough in developing antibacterial drugs - Oct. 8, 2012
� Medicare knee replacements surge 162% since 1991 - Oct. 8, 2012
� Patients won�t ask physicians to come clean on hand-washing - Oct. 5, 2012
� AMA proposes revisions to Medicare hospital observation policy - Sept. 28, 2012
� Hospitalist project reports success in improving ED patient flow - Sept. 26, 2012
� Nationwide initiative cuts central-line infections by 40% - Sept. 25, 2012
� Many rural patients bypass local hospitals - Sept. 24, 2012
� More cardiologists embrace working for hospitals - Sept. 24, 2012
� No pay for UTIs has little effect on hospitals� bottom lines - Sept. 18, 2012
� Employing more physicians stabilizes hospital finances - Sept. 10, 2012
� Many hospitals recruiting doctors continually - Sept. 10, 2012
� EHR cost savings might depend on proximity to IT firms and talent - Sept. 5, 2012
� More complex EHRs can result in declines of quality measures - Sept. 4, 2012
� Evolution of the hospitalist - Sept. 3, 2012
� Patient safety law protects some documents in court case - Aug. 29, 2012
� Hospitals get revenue boost from meaningful use money - Aug. 29, 2012
� Patient dumping remains a concern for nation�s EDs - Aug. 27, 2012
� 2,200 hospitals face Medicare pay penalty for readmissions - Aug. 27, 2012
� Home health agency acquires physician practice - Aug. 27, 2012
� FTC order could give physicians a way out of noncompete deals with hospitals - Aug. 22, 2012
� Medical staff has no standing to sue hospital, court rules - Aug. 20, 2012
� Finances most likely reason for large-group doctors to seek new jobs - Aug. 20, 2012
� Health system offers guaranteed savings as part of ACO - Aug. 15, 2012
� Hospital initiative cuts readmissions and ED wait times - Aug. 14, 2012
� Increase in physician practice mergers and acquisitions expected to continue - Aug. 14, 2012
� Pioneering health reform state enacts cost controls - Aug. 13, 2012
� Most hospital adverse events not reported to state systems - Aug. 8, 2012
� Hospital websites don't tell whole story on robot-assisted surgery - Aug. 6, 2012
� Coming wave of Medicaid patients will test quality at safety-net hospitals - Aug. 6, 2012
� New �weekend effect� seen in cardiac care - July 30, 2012
� Hospital system and insurer end long battle by reaching deal - July 25, 2012
� Cloud computing expected to grow rapidly in health care - July 23, 2012
� Hospitals behind physician recruiting for not-so-solo practices - July 23, 2012
� AMA seeks changes to Medicare hospital observation policy - July 10, 2012
� AMA and AAMC oppose expanding hospital no-pay list - July 9, 2012
� Insurers not paying when patients leave hospital against medical advice is a myth - July 5, 2012
� Fear of punitive response to hospital errors lingers - July 3, 2012
� Hospitals get A, B or C grades on patient safety - June 27, 2012
� Hospitalization increases chances of poor outcomes in Alzheimer�s patients - June 25, 2012
� Health systems experiment with providing hospital care at home - June 25, 2012
� Hospital-owned practices to receive lower Medicare rates under new rule - June 18, 2012
� How physicians get paid for call coverage is shifting - June 18, 2012
� Survey finds employed doctors mostly satisfied with their jobs - June 11, 2012
� ACOs motivate DaVita�s multibillion-dollar physician practice acquisition - June 7, 2012
� Hospital-acquired infections linked to higher readmission rates - May 28, 2012
� Nonprofit hospital finances not expected to return to pre-recession levels just yet - May 22, 2012
� Massachusetts hospitals launch patient apology program - May 21, 2012
� Column: Minnesota ruling could put medical staff rights at risk - May 21, 2012
� CMS eases rules to cut doctors� regulatory burdens - May 18, 2012
� Medicare�s no-pay rule sharpens infection-control efforts - May 14, 2012
� Study highlights how health information exchange can cut costs - May 14, 2012
� Medical practice hiring in April logs slowest monthly growth rate of 2012 - May 10, 2012
� Telemonitored patients show no drop in readmissions and ED visits - May 1, 2012
� Innovative ways to slash ED overuse - April 30, 2012
� Column: Contracts can make hospital employment less secure than doctors think - April 30, 2012
� Moody�s: Ending health reform would hurt for-profit hospitals - April 24, 2012
� Bariatric surgery maintains, doesn't gain - April 23, 2012
� AMA urges Medicare to rescind prepayment review demo - April 23, 2012
� Neonatal webcams welcome the ever-present parents - April 16, 2012
� Doctor-supported ED access plan gains ground in Washington state - April 16, 2012
� AMA seeks changes to Medicare hospital observation policy - April 16, 2012
� FTC, in turnabout, takes a closer look at hospital mergers - April 9, 2012
� CMS rules contribute to drug shortages, hospital pharmacists say - April 5, 2012
� Academic medical centers may face shrinking profits - April 4, 2012
� Only 14 states post hospital data on surgical site infections - April 2, 2012
� Hospital mergers, acquisitions expected to maintain quick pace - April 2, 2012
� Amid worries about the future, giving to hospitals goes up, slowly - March 28, 2012
� MedPAC calls for pay parity between hospital, doctor office visits - March 26, 2012
� Hospital report cards fall flat at improving patient outcomes - March 19, 2012
� Hospitals find success in slashing health disparities - March 16, 2012
� Health care job growth sets record - March 15, 2012
� Who are the chronically costly? Health care's 1% - March 5, 2012
� Hospitals try new tack: Refer injured patients to attorneys - March 5, 2012
� Physicians and hospitals must make websites more patient-friendly, study says - March 5, 2012
� Patient room notes, pop quizzes boost hand hygiene - Feb. 29, 2012
� Hospitals ramp up physician training for leadership roles - Feb. 23, 2012
� Fear of punitive response to hospital errors lingers - Feb. 20, 2012
� Discussion: Looking beyond the hospital for patient safety - Feb. 20, 2012
� Major employers support flu shot requirement for health professionals - Feb. 14, 2012
� Ambulatory setting expected to provide more job growth than hospitals - Feb. 13, 2012
� Global payment gains traction in Massachusetts - Feb. 8, 2012
� Hospital mass layoffs lower in 2011 than at height of recession - Feb. 2, 2012
� Hospital hiring of physicians picks up steam - Jan. 30, 2012
� Clarity needed on how and when to report medical adverse events - Jan. 23, 2012
� Hospital employment pits work rules against physician rights - Jan. 23, 2012
� Former drug reps eyed to pitch physicians on referrals - Jan. 16, 2012

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