Florida Gov. Rick Scott has agreed to release $35 million in state funds to keep struggling Jackson Health in Miami up and running through the summer, according to a Miami Herald report.
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One week after Tenet Health sued its aggressive suitor, Community Health Systems, for overbilling, CHS has revised its $3.3 billion bid for Tenet into an all-cash offer of $6 per share, according to a CHS news release. The previous offer,…
Vanguard Health Systems has filed plans to sell up to $600 million in common stock in an initial public offering, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The hospital operator, which has been backed by the private-equity investment firm Blackstone…
A Washington plan to prevent Medicaid from running up pricey emergency bills would limit visits for conditions such as abdominal pain, breathing trouble and some types of hemorrhage, worrying physicians, hospitals and parents, according to a Seattle Times report.
More physicians are moving into boutique practice, in which patients pay an annual fee on top of insurance in exchange for more personal care and better access to their physicians, according to a Boston Globe report.
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Increased demand for medical services under the healthcare reform law could boost the medical office building market, according to a report by the American Medical News.
Here are 15 statistics on average annual revenue generated by physician in various specialties on behalf of their affiliated hospitals in 2010, according to Merritt Hawkins' 2010 Physician Inpatient/Outpatient Revenue Survey.
Officials from Salinas (Calif.) Memorial Hospital have presented plans to lay off 200 full-time and part-time employees by June 15, according to a Monterey Herald report. A hospital spokesperson said the layoffs are part of a hospital-wide restructuring effort, but…
University of Chicago Medical Center’s 1,300 unionized nurses have voted to authorize a strike if their bargaining demands aren’t met, according to a Chicago Tribune report. Contract negotiations have been underway since August between the union, National Nurses United and…
Dawn Q. McLane, RN, MSA, CASC, CNOR, regional vice president of operations at Health Inventures in Broomfield, Colo., says deciding whether to bring new cases into the ambulatory surgery center involves working through six key concerns.