Quality & Regulatory

Though CMS required hospitals to publish their list of retail charges for individual services and DRGs in online spreadsheets starting January 1...Read More »

by Denise Wilson, RN, MS, RRT, and Karla Hiravi, RN, BSN

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a sudden and temporary loss of kidney...Read More »

Hospital star ratings were updated publicly Thursday for the ...Read More »

Eight hundred hospitals will see a pay cut this year from Medicare due to high rates of infections and patient injuries. This is the highest...Read More »

Community Hospital in Munster, Indiana, disputes an OIG report that found DRG...Read More »

Mary Beth Bumbarger, RHIA, CHDA, CCS, will present “Mortality Measures Optimization: Getting to Know the Data,” on Day 2 of the ACDIS conference....Read More »

By Laurie L. Prescott, MSN, RN, CCDS, CDIP, CRC

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM), a nonprofit, nongovernmental...Read More »

Healthgrades released its annual list of “America’s Best Hospitals...Read More »

By Brian Murphy

Developments continue in a $188.1 million lawsuit against Renton, Washington-based Providence Health &...Read More »