New York-based Oscar Health, a young insurance company, provides a mobile app for clients fully equipped with unique "click and appointments" options, according to the L.A. Times.
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David Torchiana, MD. President and CEO of Partners HealthCare (Boston). In March, Dr. Torchiana was appointed president and CEO of Partners HealthCare. In this position he oversees the Institute of Health Professions, a graduate school subsidiary of Massachusetts General Hospital…
Jeffrey E. Thompson, MD. Chairman and Executive Advisor of Gundersen Health System (La Crosse, Wis.). In addition to being CEO and chairman of the boards of the Gundersen Health System, Dr. Thompson is a practicing pediatric intensivist and neonatologist. He…
The following insurers made headlines this week. They are listed below, beginning with the most recent.
St. Louis-based SSM Health will spend $500 million to replace Saint Louis University Hospital within the next five years, according to a St. Louis Business Journal report.
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Marlton, N.J.-based Virtua Health has proposed the construction of a $1 billion hospital complex on a 110-acre farm in Westampton Township, N.J., according to a Philly.com report.
Detroit Medical Center Children's Hospital of Michigan raised the first beam today of its new six-story pediatrics tower, according to The Detroit News.
Detroit-based United Auto Workers has plans to overhaul healthcare for autoworkers through an independent co-op that experts are saying could be difficult to pull off, according to The Detroit Free Press.
Roughly 600 patients at the Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas are being moved into a new 17-story, $1.3 billion facility this week, according to The Dallas Morning News.
The biggest insurers in the health insurance marketplace raised premiums an average of 75 percent more this year than smaller insurers in each state, according to a study in the Harvard Journal of Technology Science.