Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare has acquired the Park City (Utah) Clinic, and the two plan to form an accountable care organization, according to a Park Record report.
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The Congressional Budget Office released a new report yesterday on the long-term outlook of the U.S. budget, and healthcare spending is expected to eat up increasingly larger portions of the budget and, consequently, contribute more to the national deficit.
Davenport, Iowa-based Genesis Health System, which serves the Quad Cities region of Iowa and Illinois, is teaming up with Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield to from an accountable care organization, according to a Des Moines Register report.
For the first time since 2005, average infection preventionist salaries declined year-over-year, from $72,045 in 2011 to $71,395 this year, according to a Healthcare Purchasing News report.
In an effort to build off the state Medicaid overhaul, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the state will request a waiver from CMS, which will allow the state to invest $10 billion to "transform the state's healthcare system."
Healthcare services and technology company GHX announced healthcare providers in its North American supply chain recently crossed the $2 billion threshold in documented savings.
Two physicians from the department of anesthesiology and perioperative care at the University of California at Irvine have received Foundation of Anesthesia, Education and Research grants. Both anesthesiologists will receive a two-year grant supported by the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
Walgreens, the country's largest pharmacy chain by sales, named Alan London, MD, chief medical officer of Take Care Health Systems Consumer Solutions Group.
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis reduced hospitalizations by 12 percent and monthly Medicare spending by $217 per enrollee after redesigning its care management program, according to a study in Health Affairs.
Users of Medicaid home and community-based services are particularly vulnerable to avoidable hospital admissions, generating a significant cost to Medicaid and Medicare, according to a study in Health Affairs.