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Under Ducey’s budget, hospitals will pay for his education spending
Arizona hospitals will pay more under Gov. Doug Ducey’s $10.1 billion spending plan.
Rural hospitals continue to provide quality care, despite facing challenges
We must pay more to attract physicians and specialists who may otherwise prefer to work in the Phoenix or Tucson areas. Personnel expenses now account for 75 percent of our total operational costs, and we have been recruiting for another primary care physician to join our team for the past two years.
Arizona initiative prompted by California feud between union, hospitals
A years-long battle between organized labor and health care companies in California has spilled over into Arizona in the form of a proposed ballot measure that would severely restrict how much hospitals can pay their executives.
Murphy Health Center brings care and hope to south Phoenix
Not far from a sewage treatment plant, a landfill and the Maricopa County jail annex are the four schools and hundreds of families that make up the Murphy Elementary School District in south Phoenix. More than 80 percent of its residents are Hispanic, most of them poor and many undocumented.
Crisis avoided: AHCCCS, Ducey say no to planned provider cuts
Gov. Doug Ducey and the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System decided not to impose substantial cuts on Medicaid providers that could have cost the state’s health care industry up to $95 million over the next three years.
Triple threat: Hospitals could go to ballot if doomsday scenario plays out
The fiscal year 2016 budget may only the beginning of a year of bad news for Arizona hospitals, which could face a doomsday scenario depending on the outcome of two big lawsuits.
Appellate court hears arguments in Medicaid expansion case
Republican lawmakers asked the Arizona Court of Appeals this afternoon to give them a chance to prove that hundreds of millions of dollars being used to support an expanded Medicaid program were illegally enacted.
Arizona court: Law allows suits against hospitals
A new Arizona court decision says lawsuits filed under a state law to protect vulnerable or incapacitated adults from neglect, abuse and exploitation can be filed against hospitals.
AZ health dept. to roll out hospital compare tool
State health officials are launching a new online tool that will let patients and their families compare the costs and results of health care at hospitals across the state.
Maricopa County to pay $45M in hospital pay dispute
Maricopa County will pay $45 million to settle a legal dispute with three dozen hospitals and health-care providers over billing claims from emergency health care provided to low-income residents more than a decade ago.
Hospitals get active
Health care industry leaders are coalescing behind McComish, Lewis, Crandall, Worsley and Pierce. And it’s all tied to the race for Senate president, one Capitol railbird told our reporter. The source said health care industry leaders in August attended a joint fundraiser in Phoenix for the candidates.
Arizona hospitals fare poorly in national survey of patient safety
WASHINGTON – More than half of the 47 Arizona hospitals ranked in a recent survey of patient safety got a grade of C, the lowest grade offered in the first year of the national report. The survey by the Leapfrog Group measured 26 patient-safety factors, everything from the hospital’s computer system to how often catheters are removed and even the frequency of surgeons accidentally sewing up[...]
