Why you’re not hearing from hospitals in the reform debate

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on November 5, 2009 at 12:07 pm

A former CMS boss tells Blake Farmer they’re quite satisfied, thank you, with the lukewarm, wishy-washy way things appear to be going.

“If you really want to do the right thing and finance this thing and pay for it, hospitals should probably be taking a bigger hit as should probably a lot of the providers, but that’s not likely to happen.”

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Tags: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, government spending, hospital management, legislative issues, National health care reform, Tennessee Hospital Association, Tom Scully  

Health IT venture in THA alliance

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on October 7, 2009 at 10:38 am

CredenceHealthcare has partnered with the consulting arm of the Tennessee Hospital Association. The Brentwood-based company will market its Web-based clinical software to facilities around the state.

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Tags: CredenceHealth Inc., information technology: health care, software, Tennessee Hospital Association, THA Solutions Group  

Putting a number on the end of hospitals’ bad debt

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on August 26, 2009 at 3:04 pm

And that number is $171 billion over the next decade, according to the American Hospital Association. In an odd twist, Bloomberg’s story on the gap between that number and the $155 billion in spending hospitals have said they will cut relies on a revised statement (the original of which was published in July) from Craig Becker, chief of the Tennessee Hospital Association.

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Tags: American Hospital Association, bad debt, Craig Becker, health insurance, hospital management, National health care reform, Tennessee Hospital Association