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Ambulatory surgery center operator Symbion saw its year-over-year loss widen in the first quarter of 2012, according to a Nashville Post report.

Earlier this year, Delnor Health System in Geneva, Ill., and Central DuPage Health in Winfield, Ill., announced their new merged system would be known as Cadence Health — and for CFO Jim Spear, that meant tackling new financial initiatives.

California Gov. Jerry Brown released an updated state budget proposal (pdf) — California currently faces a $15.7 billion deficit for 2012-2013, up from its earlier estimate of $9.2 billion — and hospitals face roughly $280 million in cuts from Medi-Cal…

The American Hospital Association submitted a letter to CMS Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner yesterday, saying it supported a one-year delay of ICD-10 to Oct. 1, 2014, but that CMS should finalize its proposal soon.

Physician compensation accounted for 8.6 percent of total healthcare costs in the United States in 2011 — or $216 billion of the $2.5 trillion spent on healthcare, according to data from the Overseas Employment Development Board and a survey from…

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