The following hospital mergers and acquisitions took place within the past week, beginning with the most recent.
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A study of Oregon's Medicaid expansion has revealed improved health of newly insured patients but higher costs, according to a New York Times report.
Maui Radiology Associates, the current radiology services provider for Maui Memorial Medical Center in Wailuku, Hawaii, is challenging the hospital's new radiology contract with a different provider, according to a Maui News report.
Two years after changing its name, few people call the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston by its new name of UTHealth. The system is looking into a $250,000 branding campaign to change that, according to a Houston…
New Rochelle, N.Y.-based Sound Shore Medical Center announced the creation of a joint replacement surgery center.
Kaiser Permanente is one of the most well-known integrated health systems and health maintenance organizations in the country, and Kathy Lancaster heads the finances and strategic planning of Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, its large, non-profit hospital arm.
A total of $662 million in incentives were paid for both the Physician Quality Reporting System and e-Prescribing Incentive Programs in 2010, which represents a 72 percent increase since 2009, according to a CMIO report.
The U.S. Department of Treasury has proposed rules to protect patients from abusive collection practices at charitable hospitals.
Fifty-seven percent of Medicare physicians used an electronic health record system at their primary practice location in 2011, according to a report (pdf) by the Government Accountability Office.
New accounting standards on how hospitals report bad debt expense will improve hospital balance sheets and the comparability of some financial metrics, according to a report from Fitch Ratings (pdf).