Employers and health care providers must overhaul how they prevent and fight cancer to head off an expensive crisis in treating the disease, a top national health adviser said Friday. “The trick here is not simply to cut costs. It's cutting costs intelligently —...
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Will San Francisco hospitals cut prices, as Seattle’s Swedish did?
Swedish Health System, one of Seattle's largest health care providers, is slashing outpatient prices dramatically, but there's no sign yet that San Francisco hospitals are likely to follow in its footsteps. The Puget Sound Business Journal, an affiliated publication,...
Michigan mobile health initiative aims to cut hospital costs, readmissions
Community EMS, a Southfield, Mich., ambulance and consulting company, has begun pilot testing a mobile health initiative to use paramedics and telemedicine to assess the health of chronic disease patients who develop non-emergency health problems. The pilot is viewed...
Aeroflow Healthcare Expands Patient Base with Air-Care Acquisition
Southeastern-based durable medical equipment (DME) company Aeroflow Healthcare recently acquired Air-Care Home Health, Inc. of Easley, SC. Aeroflow will now be the primary oxygen supplies and service provider for Air-Care patients, extending their presence in...
Medtrade Spring Attracting New Blood
Ron Resnick has seen the challenges mount for HME providers across the country. As president of Blue Chip Medical Products Inc, Resnick believes part of the problem is that too many dealers are simply not aware of how much help is available. “A lot of dealers do not...
UPMC East to offer elective angioplasty
By mid-spring, UPMC East Hospital anticipates offering elective angioplasty, a heart vessel clearing procedure that mostly had been available at Pennsylvania hospitals with heart surgery capability. Dr. Suresh Mulukutla, director of interventional cardiology, said...
California Association of Medical Product Suppliers (CAMPS) 2014 Annual Convention
California Association of Medical Product Suppliers (CAMPS) 2014 Annual Convention February 25 - 26, 2014 Radisson Hotel at Los Angeles Airport 6225 W Century Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90045 CampsOne.org .... MedBill HME Billing Service Provider of Professional...
Allegheny Health part of Olympic medical network
Western Pennsylvania’s Allegheny Health Network is one of six health care providers nationwide that can be used by Olympic athletes under the U.S. Olympic Committee’s National Medical Network. The USOC network was founded last year to provide medical care to Olympic...
Telehealth network scores a $23.6M investment
Several large healthcare groups are getting on the telehealth train after announcing Wednesday they would be investing some $24 million in the technology. Sutter Health has joined venture capital firms Heritage Group and Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors to sign a $23.6...
OIG Finds Medicare Billing Errors at Morton and UCH Memorial Hospitals
Two recent reports from the HHS Office of Inspector General have found billing errors led to Medicare overpayments at two separate hospitals. At 154-bed Morton Hospital in Taunton, Mass., which is part of Boston-based Steward Health Care System, the OIG said billing...
Highmark and UPMC dispute targeted by bills
Two state senators are planning to introduce legislation that would require health systems to contract with any willing insurer, effectively ending the Highmark Inc.-UPMC contract dispute while shaping future relations between big health systems and consumers. Sens....
UPMC to build in Pine Township
UPMC is planning to construct a medical office building in Pine Township, less than a mile from Highmark’s medical mall. Pine supervisors approved land development plans for a two-story, 23,000-square-foot medical office building, which will be built on Route 19 near...