The American Hospital Association statement for the record to the Senate Special Committee on Aging hearing “Bad Medicine: Closing Loopholes that Kill American Patients.” ...

Those with an extreme pain crisis mis-triaged with a less severe category waited nearly three times as long for medication.

A new HFMA report diagnoses the healthcare industry as being in "serious condition," providing a link between declining national affordability and rising patient bad debt and collection costs facing ...

Rockville General Hospital is one of three hospitals in Connecticut owned by Prospect Medical Holdings. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT Mirror CT Mirror’s independent, nonprofit journalism depends on ...

How much is too much for patients to pay off a bill for medical care? According to data gathered by the Crowe Revenue Cycle Analytics (Crowe RCA) software, collection rates drop significantly when the ...

Physicians don't like delivering bad news to their patients any more than their patients like receiving it, studies suggest. For example, French researchers, publishing in the Journal of Clinical ...

Physicians’ and advanced practice professionals have the ability to undermine team function with disrespectful or unsafe conduct. A recent study in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient ...

A total of 152 subjects participated in the research: 51 patients, 51 nurses, and 50 doctors. Doctors and nurses were sampled from the internal medicine and surgical wards which were chosen because ...

When a patient enters the emergency department in critical condition, doctors must quickly run through a crucial list of ...

In art and photography, the "vanishing point" is the point at which two lines converge, meeting at the horizon line and suggesting three-dimensional space. In hospital revenue cycles, the vanishing ...