McLeod Health, based in Florence, South Carolina, is eyeing plans to construct a $45 million replacement facility for its Cheraw-based hospital, the health system said this week. The facility will be constructed on the current McLeod Health Cheraw property and replace the current building, which was built in 1980.
Total physician compensation saw a modest 3% growth in 2023, increasing from an average of $352,000 to $363,000, yet despite the increase, dissatisfaction over pay persists, according to the latest findings of the 2024 Medscape Physician Compensation Report.
Acute care hospitals are getting a 2.6% payment increase in a proposed rule released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services last week. The proposal reflects a projected 2025 hospital market basket percentage increase of 3%, reduced by a 0.4 percentage point productivity adjustment.
HIMSS24 Interoperability Showcase gets solutions out of the lab to demonstrate interoperability between competing vendor products, says Michael Nusbaum, president of MH Nusbaum & Associates.
James McHugh, managing director at Berkeley Research Group, reveals quite positive feelings among provider organization executives on deploying artificial intelligence in the next three years.
There’s no current standard to ensure that data that’s used in AI reflects the diversity of people around the world, says Dr. Ivor Horn, Google’s chief health equity officer.
Nearly 95% of community health centers (CHCs) have reported that patients have been disenrolled from Medicaid, and among those reporting disenrollment, an estimated 23% (nearly one in four patients) have been disenrolled, according to a new survey from the National Association of Community Health Centers and the George Washington Uni
Over three-quarters of physician practices have experienced severe disruptions since the February 21 Change Healthcare cyberattack, according to an American Medical Association survey of state medical associations and national medical specialty societies.
1upHealth leverages FHIR for interoperability and improved data flow for clinical claims, says CEO Joe Gagnon.
Members of the Washington County legislative delegation in Pennsylvania have called on the state’s governor, Josh Shapiro, to work with the Pennsylvania attorney general to finalize the merger of Washington Health System and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.