Month: November 2018

Montefiore Health System grew its excess of revenue over expenses 66% year over year in the nine months ended Sept. 30 to $119 million. This article was originally posted on Modern Health Care.

Patients in low-income neighborhoods have longer average ambulance wait times when experiencing a heart attack than those in more affluent communities. Researchers suggest that could contribute to their differences in health outcomes. This article was originally posted on Modern Health Care.

U.S. hospitals turned a profit in October as volumes unexpectedly rebounded, marking five out of the past six months where providers recorded positive operating margins, according to a new report. This article was originally posted on Modern Health Care.

Recent updates to U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations call for clinicians to offer pre-exposure prophylaxis to those at higher risk of contracting HIV, but doctors warn it might make some patients at higher risk of catching other sexually transmitted diseases. This article was originally posted on Modern Health Care.

NQF’s Measure Applications Partnership has 39 measures to consider. The CMS said it chose the measures based on its Meaningful Measures framework. This article was originally posted on Modern Health Care.

Fitch Ratings predicts the U.S. healthcare sector will be stable in 2019, but don’t expect the pressure on pricing and profit margins to let up any time soon. This article was originally posted on Modern Health Care.

The CMS has accepted Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s correction plan to maintain its Medicare contract, after threatening to pull it for failures around the 2017 wrongful death of a patient. This article was originally posted on Modern Health Care.

A government watchdog warned that Medicare could end up spending more money on laboratory tests, even though the CMS has reformed its payment system. This article was originally posted on Modern Health Care.

New York hospital illegally billed patients for rape kits, an Amazon investor thinks Prime Health is coming and a data breach of Marriott exposed up to 500 million people’s information. This article was originally posted on Modern Health Care.

Hoping for a Christmas miracle. This article was originally posted on Fox News Health.