After completing the required antitrust investigation, Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen has announced he will not block the proposed merger between Yale-New Haven (Conn.) Hospital and Hospital of Saint Raphael in New Haven.
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Rockville, Md.-based Adventist HealthCare announced it will break ground on the Aquilino Cancer Center at its Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville June 6.
A 2009 qui tam lawsuit involving Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, N.C., has prompted a new state bill that would give protection to whistleblowers who identify wrongdoing affecting North Carolina's State Health Plan, according to a Winston-Salem Journal report.
A recent poll of 50,000 specialists and primary care physicians found that 56 percent are concerned about the pending Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Hospitals are taking note too, uncertain how CMS will implement the Sunshine Act, which requires pharmaceutical, medical…
The dean of University of Missouri's medical school in Columbia has announced his retirement while the U.S. Attorney's Office continues a seven-month probe over alleged Medicare violations at the school, according to Columbia Daily Tribune report.
The countdown to when readmission penalties go into effect under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is well underway. In fiscal year 2013 (which begins October 1), CMS will start financially penalizing providers with the highest rates of 30-day…
Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago will adopt a new name today during a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new $915 million facility, becoming Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.
A blog post written by Kevin Phillips, partner with healthcare public affairs firm Jarrard, Phillips Cate & Hancock, shares 10 questions to determine if a hospital is strong enough to thrive independently.
A recent article in the New York Times explored the growing use of anesthesiologist-administered anesthesia during colonoscopy and its impact on the cost of colonoscopy procedures. Traditionally, colonoscopies have been performed with conscious sedation, which can be administered by a…
Seventy eight percent of Americans who will be eligible for health insurance subsidies created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have never heard of state-based health insurance exchanges, which they would need to access to shop for coverage,…