Capital

Molina Healthcare purchased Texas Medicaid contracts from Cigna, adding about 50,000 new members. 

Phoenix-based Abrazo Health acquired 27 acres of land, which it plans to use for a new medical office building, ambulatory services and an acute care hospital.

UnitedHealthcare is extending its relationship with human resources and benefits administrator Insperity through 2026. 

La Mesa, Calif.-based Sharp Grossmont Hospital plans to spend $58 million on a new neurosciences center, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Jan. 2. 

More than 27 million Americans are enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans, and insurers are signaling it may be a fruitful market worth more of their resources, according to Forbes. 

The success of a philanthropic program depends on a robust principal gift program that has the support and investment of organizational leadership.

The following health systems have opened hospitals, advanced proposals to build them or announced plans for them since Dec. 1:

Boston-based Mass General Brigham's plan to construct three outpatient surgery centers would lower healthcare prices and reduce expenditures on healthcare services, according to a recent independent report by Sean May, PhD, of Charles River Associates.

After receiving major donations, several hospitals and health systems named buildings and centers after their donors or their donors' loved ones in 2021.

Stockton, Calif.-based Dignity Health St. Joseph's Medical Center is planning an expansion that includes a 331,000-square-foot inpatient acute care hospital facility.