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IRS will honor medical resident FICA refund claims before April 1, 2005
Medical residents are excepted from FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) taxes based on the student exception for tax periods ending before April 1, 2005, when new regulations became effective,... Read more...
Case study: Wisconsin hospital saves dollars by going green
Bit by bit, a center at one Wisconsin hospital has been adding green initiatives to its operations. These efforts, while not earth-shattering on their own, have already begun to show results for the... Read more...
2007 hospital stays cost $55.9 billion; Health plan premiums up 5 percent in '09;
> New data from 2007 concludes that there were more than 4.7 million hospitals stays among adults aged 55 years to 64 years, totaling $55.9 billion, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research... Read more...
Study: Hospitals could lose money on public option plan
Across the political spectrum, there's debate as to the effect a government-run public option plan would have on the healthcare industry, as a whole. Most of the arguments seem to center on whether... Read more...
Could this be the death of the hospital arms race?
Over the past year or so, as I've watched hospitals struggle to survive without meaningful access to capital, I've wondered how they've pulled it off. After all, for decades, U.S. hospitals have more... Read more...
Some thoughts on outsourcing collections
The other day, a member of the social networking group on LinkedIn posted an interesting question to a healthcare discussion group: "What do you think is more cost effective: to hire new staff... Read more...
Bracing for health reform's impact
Health reform is sweeping through Washington like a cyclone, and with it will come huge changes to how healthcare organizations run, it seems certain. How impacted you are probably depends on what... Read more...
Report: Hospital IT spending to hit $6.8B by 2014
With federal stimulus payments encouraging spending, U.S. hospitals' investment in IT should see healthy growth over the next five years, according to new research released by HIMSS Analytics.... Read more...
Tenet offers plans to maintain profitability with baby boomers
Tenet Healthcare offered plans to deal with the financial pressures imposed by the incoming wave of baby boomers this week, which consist largely of spreading the best practices of its most efficient... Read more...
FHA underwrites massive hospital mortgage
The Federal Housing Administration has announced that it has inked a deal to insure a $756 million mortgage to allow Capital Health of Trenton, NJ to construct a new 223-bed hospital nearby. While... Read more...
