Hospitals are feeling pains of their own

From the Tennesean:
The Tennessee Hospital Association (THA) recently conducted a survey of its member hospitals to begin to assess the impact current economic conditions are having on hospitals. The extent of what we found was surprising and somewhat shocking. This recession has reached both deep and wide because no hospital is being spared the pain.
The [...]

Primary Care Scheduling Changes Affect ED Use

From the Concord (NH) Monitor:

At the Family Health Center, a primary care practice in Concord that treats a large number of poor and uninsured patients, a simple change in scheduling policy has yielded a dramatic change in how often its patients visit the emergency room.
According to director Marie Wawrzyniak, after the practice shifted from the [...]

New Hospital Tax in Wisconsin?

From the Wassau Daily Herald:
State legislators are expected to reconsider a proposal to tax hospital gross revenues that could help improve the health care providers’ reimbursement for treating the poor and slow the growth of health care costs for the insured.
A spokeswoman for the state’s Department of Health Services said a proposal for a [...]