American Health Planning Association

NY Medicaid ditching fee for service (Healthcare Payer News)
Continued Hospital Closures Threaten Healthcare in One-Hospital Towns (US News & World Report)
Subsidies for Safety-Net Hospitals Reduced by the ACA (NY Times)
The NYS Hospital Association Grades the Graders (The Washington Post/Kaiser Health News)
The ACA is Encouraging Some Non-Profit Hospitals to Merge with For-Profits (Bloomberg)
Mississippi Patients and Hospitals Threatened by Rejection of Medicaid Expansion Driven by Political Polarization (Reuters)
Capacity Management thru Regional Health Planning/CON Cited for Giving Rochester the Nation’s Lowest Medicare Costs (Wall Street Journal)
Rural Critical Access Hospitals Threatened by Medicare Cost Containment Policy (Kansas Health Institute)
Disproportionate Impact Seen on Rural Hospitals from Regulatory Changes (Fierce Healthcare)
Georgia CON Decision Raises Questions About State Action Immunity (HealthLeaders Media)
Doctors Who Profit From Radiation Prescribe It More Often, Study Finds (NYTimes.com)
Report Documents Improvement of NY Hospitals Over a Decade: Continuous Quality Improvement Through Public Reporting? (Wall Street Journal)
The Story of How Atlanta’s Safety-Net Hospital, Grady Memorial, Was Saved (Health Affairs)
New Laws and Rising Costs Create a Surge of Supersizing
Hospitals (NY Times)
Physician-owned Hospitals Expand in Texas (The Dallas Morning News)
Nurse/patient staffing ratios to be on November ballot again in Massachusetts (The Boston Globe)
Hospitals Lobby Against Revealing Their Mistakes (Forbes)
A Mixed Funding Future Faces Community Health Centers (Reuters)
Freestanding EDs Represent New Competition for Both Hospitals and Urgent Care Centers (USA Today)
Competition, Not Need, Drives Hospital Cardiac Care Investment (The Washington Post)
Hospitals’ Market Dominance Drives Up Costs (NY Times)
New York Is Still a Model for Using Health Planning to Regionalize Specialized Hospital Services (The Washington Post)
Maryland Proposes to Regulate Total Hospital Costs (Washington Post)
States’ Decisions on Medicaid Widen Healthcare Disparities (LA Times)
Controversy Continues Over CON’s Regulation of ASCs in North Carolina (The Charlotte Observer)
Hospitals’ “Community Benefits” Spending Does Little for Community (MedPage Today)
Community Benefits Represent 11.6% of Nonprofit Hospital Spending (Fierce Healthcare)
IRS Regulations Provide Some Relief for Hospitals in Performing Community Health Needs Assessments (Fierce Health Finance)
Mortality Rates Increase at Critical Access Hospitals (Kaiser Health News)
CON’s Regulation of ASCs in North Carolina Engenders Controversy Over Costs (The Charlotte Observer)
Georgia Hospital Case Narrows State’s Regulatory Authority Under “State Action Immunity” (Modern Healthcare)
Charity Care Strains Rural Hospitals (Georgia Public Broadcasting)
Louisiana’s Rejection of Both the ACA and Medicaid Expansion Threatens to Dismantle Its Safety Net (The Atlantic)
Maine Deals With Low Hospital Occupancy (Portland Press Herald)
State to Hold Hearings on Elective Angioplasties
The heart of the matter: should NJ hospitals without onsite cardiac surgery be allowed to perform this procedure? (NJ Spotlight)

See Also:
NJ Health Department to Decide Which Hospitals Will Perform Non-emergency Angioplasty (Star-Ledger)

Court found state used outdated rule to justify new trauma programs (The Ledger)
Hyperbaric Chambers Are Being Acquired by Florida Hospitals (Daytona Beach News-Journal)
Costs for Angioplasty Found to Be Higher in Hospitals Without Surgical Back-Up (Reuters)
PCI Often Done at Low-Volume Centers (MedPage Today)
Constitutional Status of Virginia’s CON Law to Be Appealed (American Medical News)
Public Reporting of PCI Outcomes Reduces Costs Without Compromising Quality (LA Times)
Study Finds That Hospital Maternity Unit Closures Increased Infant Mortality (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Experts Disagree on “Best Hospitals” Ranking (USA Today)
Montana Opens the First State-Run Health Clinic (Reuters)
Costs Reduced If More Hospitals Have Observation Units (US News & World Report)
Hospital Trauma Centers as a New Source of Profits (USA Today)
Editorial:Don't ignore all the empty hospital beds in Support of CON (Detroit Free Press)
Ohio Medicaid Program Raises Stakes For Nursing Homes (Kaiser Health News)

Hospital Chain Internal Reports Found Dubious Cardiac Work (NYTimes)

Alabama Judge Cites State Health Plan and State Regulatory Criteria in Opposing Hospital’s Plan to Relocate (The Birmingham News)
Superior Primary Care at Federally Funded Community Health Centers (The Atlantic)
TB Outbreak a Public Health Crisis for Florida (Palm Beach Post)
Lawmakers promise review of CON Process Next Session (Mississippi Business Journal)
Washington Times Commentary: Virginia’s certification-of-need rule interferes with medical marketplace (Washington Times Online)
Boston Globe Editorial Critiques NH’s Bias for For-Profit Institutions (The Boston Globe)
Indiana Considers a Statewide Trauma Network (Evansville Courier & Press)
Prognosis: Profits - Charlotte, NC Hospitals Get an Unscheduled Fiscal (Charlotte Observer)
Legislators Take a Careful Look at Hospitals’ Charity Care(Forbes)
ASCs May Be Required to Obtain a Determination of Need in Massachusetts (Boston Herald)
Rhode Island Reduces Regulation of Hospital Conversions (Modern Healthcare)
The Escalating Battle for Supremecy in the Burbs (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Studies citied:

Hospitals’ Geographic Expansion In Quest Of Well-Insured Patients (Center for Studying Health System Change)
Hospital Bed Supply and Hospitalization: A Tale of Four Cities (Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Business Group on Health)

2012 County Health Rankings (The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)

Current opportunities:

No current openings.

`Hospital Chain Internal Reports Found Dubious Cardiac Work (NYTimes)`

Alabama Judge Cites State Health Plan and State Regulatory Criteria in Opposing Hospital’s Plan to Relocate (The Birmingham News)

Superior Primary Care at Federally Funded Community Health Centers (The Atlantic)

TB Outbreak a Public Health Crisis for Florida (Palm Beach Post)

Lawmakers promise review of CON Process Next Session (Mississippi Business Journal)
Washington Times Commentary: Virginia’s certification-of-need rule interferes with medical marketplace (Washington Times Online)

Boston Globe Editorial Critiques NH’s Bias for For-Profit Institutions (The Boston Globe)

Indiana Considers a Statewide Trauma Network (Evansville Courier & Press)

Prognosis: Profits - Charlotte, NC Hospitals Get an Unscheduled Fiscal (Charlotte Observer)

Legislators Take a Careful Look at Hospitals’ Charity Care(Forbes)

ASCs May Be Required to Obtain a Determination of Need in Massachusetts (Boston Herald)

Rhode Island Reduces Regulation of Hospital Conversions (Modern Healthcare)

The Escalating Battle for Supremecy in the Burbs (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Studies citied:

Hospitals’ Geographic Expansion In Quest Of Well-Insured Patients (Center for Studying Health System Change)

Hospital Bed Supply and Hospitalization: A Tale of Four Cities (Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Business Group on Health)

2012 County Health Rankings (The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)

Current opportunities: No current openings.

Hospital Chain Internal Reports Found Dubious Cardiac Work (NYTimes)

Alabama Judge Cites State Health Plan and State Regulatory Criteria in Opposing Hospital’s Plan to Relocate (The Birmingham News)

Superior Primary Care at Federally Funded Community Health Centers (The Atlantic)

TB Outbreak a Public Health Crisis for Florida (Palm Beach Post)

Lawmakers promise review of CON Process Next Session (Mississippi Business Journal) Washington Times Commentary: Virginia’s certification-of-need rule interferes with medical marketplace (Washington Times Online)

Boston Globe Editorial Critiques NH’s Bias for For-Profit Institutions (The Boston Globe)

Indiana Considers a Statewide Trauma Network (Evansville Courier & Press)

Prognosis: Profits - Charlotte, NC Hospitals Get an Unscheduled Fiscal (Charlotte Observer)

Legislators Take a Careful Look at Hospitals’ Charity Care(Forbes)

ASCs May Be Required to Obtain a Determination of Need in Massachusetts (Boston Herald)

Rhode Island Reduces Regulation of Hospital Conversions (Modern Healthcare)

The Escalating Battle for Supremecy in the Burbs (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Studies citied:

Hospitals’ Geographic Expansion In Quest Of Well-Insured Patients (Center for Studying Health System Change)

Hospital Bed Supply and Hospitalization: A Tale of Four Cities (Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Business Group on Health)

2012 County Health Rankings (The University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)

Current opportunities:

No current openings.

`Hospital Chain Internal Reports Found Dubious Cardiac Work (NYTimes)`

Lawmakers promise review of CON Process Next Session (Mississippi Business Journal)
Washington Times Commentary: Virginia’s certification-of-need rule interferes with medical marketplace (Washington Times Online)