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The American Medical Association applauded the U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuits against proposed Anthem-Cigna and Aetna-Humana deals, stating decreased competition in the health insurance market would harm patients.

Only about one-third of health insurers came out ahead in the Affordable Care Act marketplace in 2014, according to a study by the Commonwealth Fund.

A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge in Mississippi has approved an interim management contract with Lifebrite Hospital Group for Pioneer Community Hospital of Stokes County in Danbury, N.C., that will enable the hospital to remain in service, reports Winston-Salem Journal.

Plainfield, Ill.-based Edward-Elmhurst Health opened a new health and immediate care center in Hinsdale, Ill., according to Edward-Elmhurst officials.

The Hawaii legislature voted Wednesday to override Gov. David Ige's veto of a bill that provides severance payments or pension benefits to public workers at three hospitals Kaiser Permanente is privatizing, reports Civil Beat.

Authorities were called to Atlantis, Fla.-based JFK Medical Center after hospital officials discovered a strange envelope in the building, according to WPTV.

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CMS has notified Behavioral Hospital of Longview (Texas) it will terminate Medicare funding to the facility due to alleged deficiencies that jeopardize patient health and safety, reports Longview News-Journal.

CMS unveiled the participants Thursday of a new innovation model aimed at reducing the risk of heart attacks and strokes, which cause 1 in 3 deaths and result in $300 billion of healthcare costs annually.

Kurt Calman. Vice President and CIO of Technology and Clinical Services of United Memorial Medical Center (Batavia, N.Y.). In 2010, Mr. Calman was named CIO of United Memorial Medical Center, now one of five hospital affiliates in the Rochester (N.Y.)…