Although HHS has clarified many new or recent regulations and given providers better direction for compliance, the healthcare industry still faces a flood of changes unlike any this country has seen since the introduction of Medicare.
Transactions & Valuation Issues
Leaders from Providence Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., and St. John Hospital in Leavenworth, Kan., vigorously argued in favor of their organizations' proposed sale to Ontario, Calif.-based Prime Healthcare Services before the Kansas attorney general at a public hearing,…
Effective April 1, Elmore Medical Center in Mountain Home, Idaho, will officially integrate with St. Luke's Health System, based in Boise, Idaho.
Officials from three-hospital system MedWest, based in Clyde, N.C., have hired consulting firm Stroudwater Associates to determine the outcome of potentially dissolving its system and the impacts it could have with its manager, Charlotte, N.C.-based Carolinas HealthCare System, according to…
Morrison (Ill.) Community Hospital's board of trustees has voted to not renew its management agreement with Mercy Medical Center in Clinton, Iowa, ending a partnership that has spanned more than 20 years, according to a Sterling Daily Gazette report.
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Executives at Wise Regional Health System in Decatur, Texas, and North Texas Community Hospital in Bridgeport have formally signed transfer of ownership documents, meaning Wise Regional is now the owner of 35-bed NTCH, according to a Wise County Messenger report.
A previously proposed for-profit hospital pilot program in New York currently will not see the light of day, as it has been dropped from the state's budget, according to a New York Times report.
National watchdog groups raised questions in a letter (pdf) to the board of Little Rock, Ark.-based University of Arkansas Medical System regarding its proposed affiliation with St. Vincent Health System, also based in Little Rock, which is part of the…
Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health Care announced it has completed its merger with High Point (N.C.) Regional Health System.
Mandeville, La.-based Progressive Acute Care has finished its purchase of Dauterive Hospital in New Iberia, La., from the Regional Health System of Acadiana.