Browsing: Hospitals

The financial outlook for Medicare improved in the past year, and the program’s funding to pay all the costs for hospital services of older and disabled beneficiaries won’t run out until 2036, five years later than last year’s estimated date. A stronger than expected economy and lower expenditures on services such as inpatient hospital and…

Hospitals must obtain informed consent from patients before allowing physicians to conduct sensitive and invasive examinations, such as pelvic and prostate, especially if the patients are under anesthesia, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said Monday.  In new advice and in a letter sent to teaching hospitals, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and other…