Fishersville, Va.-based Augusta Health has yet to finalize a deal with Anthem BlueCross BlueShield, according to a News Leader report.
Transactions & Valuation Issues
The following were among the three most-read transactions and valuations stories published by Becker's Hospital Review during the past week.
Washington, D.C.-based Evolent Health, a value-based care platform, will no longer purchase Dayton, Ohio-based Premier Health's insurance arm, Evolent officials said Dec. 8.
St. Louis-based Ascension, the nation's largest nonprofit health system, is ending joint ownership of Health City Cayman Islands in Grand Cayman.
Managed competition is not the solution to America's healthcare pricing issues, according to Richard Scheffler, PhD, professor of health economics and public policy at UC Berkeley.
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Blackfoot-based Bingham Memorial Hospital purchased the city of Blackfoot's water towers for $1, Local News-8 reports.
Englewood, Colo.-based Catholic Health Initiatives and San Francisco-based Dignity Health signed a definitive agreement Dec. 7 to combine into a single Catholic health system comprising 139 hospitals across 28 states.
Becker's Hospital Review reported these five contract resolutions and dissolutions between payers and providers since Dec. 1, beginning with the most recent.
The following value-based agreements between payers and providers were inked since Nov. 27, as reported by Becker's Hospital Review.
Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health withdrew its bid to operate Mark Twain Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital in San Andreas, Calif., the Mark Twain Health Care District said Wednesday, according to The Union Democrat.