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BusinessWeek July 22, 2010 Dune Lawrence |
Rose Ann DeMoro Wants Hospitals to Scream Labor firebrand Rose Ann DeMoro of California is out to build a powerful new super union. |
BusinessWeek October 1, 2009 Sasseen & Arnst |
Why Business Fears the Public Option Executives contend that it will lead health-care providers to charge patients in private plans higher rates. |
BusinessWeek January 12, 2004 |
Health Care: The Patient Will Live, But... Employers and consumers will continue to get hammered by rising premiums, but health-care costs will rise a bit more slowly, which is good news for insurers. |
Managed Care October 2003 Ed Silverman |
Tough Negotiations in Store Between Plans and Hospitals Fallout from the Medicare outlier-payment scandal is likely to force hospitals to try to replace that revenue. Health plans, prepare to negotiate! |
Nursing Management April 2009 Sharon H. Pappas |
Profits, Payers, and Patients: Responding to Changes Profit is necessary for hospitals to fulfill their missions, invest in expansion and new technologies, and reinvest in existing patient care infrastructures. Profitability is the work of the financial team and the clinical team to produce the hospital's desired financial outcome. |
Managed Care July 2007 Martin Sipkoff |
Hospitals Asked To Account For Errors on Their Watch Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and states may stop paying for specific hospital-acquired conditions. Will health plans follow suit? |
Managed Care November 2001 |
Hospitals scramble for cutting-edge personnel Aging baby boomers, fewer people choosing the medical field, and early retirements are all helping to shift hospital demand from primary care physicians to specialists, pharmacists and nurses... |
BusinessWeek April 14, 2011 Rachel Layne |
GE and Siemens: Less May Mean More (Profits) The medical gear makers see an opportunity for their information technology units as hospitals are pressured to improve efficiency and curb waste |
The Motley Fool October 20, 2006 Billy Fisher |
AMN: A Cure-All for the Portfolio The health-care staffing firm may only be in the early stages of a prolonged ascent. However, before purchasing shares of this stock, investors should take into account the stock's recent run-up in price. |
BusinessWeek September 19, 2005 Gene G. Marcial |
AMN To The Rescue In the wake of the Katrina catastrophe, demand for health-care services to alleviate the suffering has exploded. One company that will help fill the gap, says a stock analyst, is AMN Healthcare Services, the largest national supplier of temporary nurses. |
Entrepreneur July 2002 Chris Penttila |
How's Your Health? When health care is healthy, it's the industry to be in -- and the current chaos in the sector may be the opening you need. |
Nursing Management January 2011 Dawn Chiarenza |
The CNO/ROI Factor of Accreditation In a time of healthcare reimbursement changes and budget cuts, CNOs seeking Magnet recognition must be able to emphasize benefits to organizational leadership-including return on investment. |
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 Mullaney & Weintraub |
The Digital Hospital Information technology saves lives and money at one medical center, perhaps becoming the future of health care. |
BusinessWeek January 7, 2010 Catherine Arnst |
Hospitals: Radical Cost Surgery A hospital that slashes costs - and delivers high-quality care as it innovates? Yes, it exists. |
Job Journal May 2, 2010 Arianna Jordan |
Nursing Careers come in Many Settings In sorting out your options for a nursing career, start with where you'd like to work. |
BusinessWeek May 19, 2011 Laura Litvan |
Lobbyists Mobilize to Preserve Tax Breaks Nurses, farmers, defense contractors, and others are fighting to protect tax breaks and programs dear to them. |
Managed Care December 2006 MargaretAnn Cross |
Confronting The Medicare Cost Shift Plans are increasingly concerned about the degree to which providers overcharge them to make up for losses from government programs. |
BusinessWeek February 20, 2006 Arlene Weintraub |
Should Doctors Own Hospitals? Controversy builds over a fast-growing, profit-driven business in which specialty hospitals are partly owned and run by doctors. |
BusinessWeek September 13, 2004 |
"I'm Not Ready to Tear Down the Institution" Communication Workers head Morty Bahr agrees that labor needs to make changes, but carefully. Here is an interview with one of labor's elder statesmen. |
Salon.com July 25, 2001 Diana Reiss-Koncar |
The war against nurses Assaults on R.N.s are at an all-time high, but many who complain or seek help lose their jobs as hospitals blame the victims... |
Managed Care June 2003 Maureen Glabman |
Managed Care Makes It Tough For Some Hospitals To Stay Afloat True, there are other reasons the facilities have closed, but insurers' payment rates stand out. Is it better that some are history? |
InternetNews April 1, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Online Shopping for Hospitals Hospital Compare gives the nation's hospitals a report card for key best practices. |
CFO January 1, 2002 Andrew Osterland |
Operating Room Rising hospital costs, a plague to most companies, have helped some health-care CFOs nurse profits back to health. |
BusinessWeek May 20, 2009 Catherine Arnst |
Health-Care Reform: Who Pays Is So Taboo Neither Congress nor the White House will endorse any of the options: raise taxes, ration care, or cut payments to doctors, hospitals, and drugmakers. |
Inc. January 2008 Elaine Appleton Grant |
Nurses at Your Beck and Call A company that provides temporary nurses is for sale. |
BusinessWeek September 25, 2006 |
How We Looked Inside Details of the analysis used to highlight the health-care sector's place in the total workforce. |
Managed Care July 2007 |
AMA: Patients Will Feel Cuts in Medicare Next year's proposed 10 percent cut in Medicare payments is serving as a rallying point for members of the American Medical Association, which says the cuts will make it difficult for physicians to accept new Medicare patients. |
Managed Care September 2005 Ed Silverman |
No Easy Fit For Specialty Hospitals Insurers worry that specialty hospitals will ultimately increase costs at nearby community hospitals |
Job Journal June 24, 2007 Julia Hollister |
RNs Take Their Pick of Perks, Pay & Programs In short supply, RNs enjoy signing bonuses and generous perks. |
BusinessWeek October 22, 2009 |
Two Ways to Fund Reform Separate House and Senate health-care bills cover costs differently. |
Managed Care July 2001 Maureen Glabman |
Provider Shortage Puts HMOs In Bind Increasing demand for physicians and physician extenders is starting to strain the system. To a large extent, this is unexpected bitter fruit of managed care's labor... |
HBS Working Knowledge December 22, 2014 Michael Blanding |
Regulators Ease Up on Companies that Generate Political Benefits Sometimes political influence is not just about campaign donations. Jonas Heese finds that companies can receive kid-glove treatment from the SEC and Medicare if they provide politically popular benefits. |
The Motley Fool September 10, 2009 Brian Orelli |
Obamacare: Something for Everyone to Hate Health insurers saw more to love, though. |
BusinessWeek October 22, 2009 Sasseen & Arnst |
Who Picks Up the Tab for Health Reform Insurers and taxpayers are likely to pay big chunks of the $900 billion bill to overhaul the nation's health-care system. Doctors will feel the least pain. |
Job Journal April 23, 2006 Julia Hollister |
Prospective Nursing Students Need Patience Demand for nurses is growing, but so are training-school waiting lists. There is hope, however. |
BusinessWeek November 20, 2008 |
Financial Triage Innovative ways that hospitals are looking at patient finances. |
The Motley Fool February 16, 2005 Lawrence Meyers |
When Strikes Are Good for Business Unions are in trouble, and that's good news for supermarkets. Investors, however, may find some bitter benefits in all this. |
BusinessWeek February 17, 2011 |
Taking a Scalpel to Medicaid A look at eight key states whose governors want to cut costs for Medicaid. |
The Motley Fool July 12, 2005 T.G. Wolf |
Horizon's Future Looks Bright Getting back to basics pays off for the health care company. Investors, take note. |
Salon.com December 7, 1999 Dena Bunis |
Medical mistakes are killing us Health plans covering federal workers will be the first to improve the quality of care. |
BusinessWeek June 13, 2005 Timothy J. Mullaney |
Hunting For Hospitals That Measure Up New Web sites can help you become an educated health-care consumer |
The Motley Fool March 12, 2010 Brian Orelli |
Insurers to Washington: We're Not the Problem Insurers say they're a small piece of the problem pie. |
CFO February 1, 2007 Karen M. Kroll |
Pin the Tail on the Doctor A dearth of information leaves health-care consumers in the dark. As health-care information becomes more accessible, will employees use it to purchase health-care services more intelligently? |
CFO May 1, 2009 Josh Hyatt |
Strong Medicine Boosted by a substantial injection of cash from the federal stimulus bill, electronic medical records may help relieve the pain of rising premiums by improving efficiencies in the medical system. |
BusinessWeek February 11, 2010 Nussbaum & Tirrell |
Health Reform Is Dead. Let's Go Shopping Thriving insurers and hospital chains may start to gobble up competitors weakened by the recession. |
BusinessWeek October 10, 2005 Howard Gleckman |
Medicare's Big Experiment The coming changes to Medicare aim to cut costs while improving care. Sound familiar? |
BusinessWeek July 11, 2005 Timothy J. Mullaney |
Cisco: Paging Dr. Info Tech Cisco Systems Inc.'s medical director is backing a plan in which big companies such as Cisco will give doctors financial incentives to adopt technology, with the goal of cutting costs and improving care. This plan is to put Silicon Valley in the vanguard of health-care reform. |
The Motley Fool July 31, 2009 Brian Orelli |
A Health-Care Investor's Nightmare When it comes to health-care reform, no news is not good news; the House's recent plan to delay voting on a health-care reform bill until September should have investors reaching for the antacids. |
National Real Estate Investor December 1, 2004 Matt Hudgins |
Pain Relief for Hospitals Hospital systems are anxious to get out of the landlord business as increasing liability insurance costs and reduced Medicare and Medicaid payments put the squeeze on capital budgets. |
BusinessWeek March 24, 2011 Lerer & Armstrong |
The Republican Response to Obamacare Republican proposals to control health-care costs would save the government only about $5 billion a year, or 0.6 percent. |