Boston-based Partners HealthCare System — the parent company to Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital — has posted a more than five-fold increase in its second quarter operating income, according to a Boston Globe report. The company…
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Representatives from top investment banking and private equity firms predicted a strong year for healthcare and more mergers and acquisitions of healthcare organizations, according to a release by the Nashville Healthcare Council.
Approximately 50 UC San Diego Medical Center employees demonstrated in front of the hospital yesterday as part of a statewide protest over negotiations between the University of California and the labor union representing UC Health System workers, according to a…
Wheeling, W.Va.-based Ohio Valley Health Services has filed a lawsuit accusing its former CEO of draining a $38 million endowment fund to conceal operating losses and making illegal payment arrangements with physicians, according to a report from The Republic. OVHS…
In a contracting standoff with Highmark, the area's largest health insurer, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has signed expanded contracts with three other key insurers, according to a report by the Pittsburgh Tribune.
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Nearly 80 percent of uninsured patients seeking emergency care in California emergency departments were eligible for some form of government insurance but were not enrolled, according to a survey published in Health Affairs by the Foundation for Health Coverage Education. …
With more hospitals anticipating increased emergency department use as provisions of healthcare reform are implemented, the U.S. Government Accountability Office has issued a report outlining strategies for healthcare facilities to reduce non-urgent ED use. In 2008, the average amount paid…
Community Health Systems shareholders have filed suit against the hospital operator seeking to recoup losses stock losses suffered as a result of CHS' alleged Medicare overpayments, according to a report by The Tennessean.
The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board has denied a plan by the Cook County Health & Hospitals System to convert its Oak Forest (Ill.) Hospital into an outpatient facility, according to a Washington Post report.
A new report by HHS found that few uninsured have the financial assets needed to pay potential hospital bills, adding that the uncompensated cost of care to healthcare providers in the United States is up to $73 billion annually, according…