Healthcare reform — a topic that’s been on everyone’s radar both within and outside of healthcare since President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law in March 2010 — ...

Nonprofit hospitals may have gotten a raw deal on the millions to billions of dollars they spent on management consulting ...

There exist over 5,000 Medicare certified ASCs in the country, up from around 3,000 ASCs a decade ago. Over 90 percent of these ASCs have physician ownership. Around 20 percent of the ASCs have a ...

Over the past few years, there has been a growing trends of ASCs being operated as HOPDs. As we move through 2010, this trend toward HOPD ASCs continues. For new ASC projects, the recent economic ...

On August 1, 2024, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule updating the Medicare inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS) for acute care hospitals and the Medicare ...

In recent decades, management consulting firms have become a fixture in the American health care system, wielding outsized ...

Managing visitors is a key aspect of hospital management, presenting several considerations for patient and building security, staff workflow, regulatory compliance, and patient privacy. Visitor ...