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Manhassett, N.Y.-based North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System is planning to expand the emergency departments at Huntington (N.Y.) Hospital and Southside Hospital in Bay Shore, N.Y., according to a Long Island Business News report.

Disrupting the status quo can be an unpredictable, even threatening endeavor for leaders in any business. Nowhere is it more true and prevalent than in healthcare today, and in the medical device sector in particular.  

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The number of Medicare Part B-reimbursed ambulance transports increased nearly 70 percent between 2002 and 2011, according to a report from the Office of the Inspector General. During that same period, the number of fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries who received transport…

Piedmont, Calif.-based Alta Bates Medical Group, a division of Brown & Toland Physicians in San Francisco, has joined Brown & Toland's collaborative accountable care initiative with Cigna, adding 327 physicians to the accountable care organization-like agreement.

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