HCA in Nashville, Tenn., has named Sylvia Young as president of its continental division, effective June 1.
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St. Joseph Health System in Bryan, Texas, has announced that Tony Pfitzer is no longer CEO, according to a KBTX report.
Steward Health Care System in Boston has named Kimberly Bassett as president and CEO of Morton Hospital in Taunton, Mass., according to a Taunton Daily Gazette.
Asante Health System in Medford, Ore., has named Scott Kelly as CEO of Rogue Valley Medical Center, also in Medford, effective immediately, according to a Mail Tribune report.
St. John's Medical Center in Jackson Hole, Wyo., has named Louis Hochheiser, MD, as CEO.
Mary Jo Lewis, CEO of HighPoint Health System in Gallatin, Tenn., has announced her retirement, according to a Tennessean report.
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has released a plan that would cut $2.7 billion out of the Medicaid program, and 75 percent of the plan focuses on increasing cuts and reducing Medicaid rates to hospitals and healthcare providers.
Here are 14 hospital and health system executive compensation stories from the past month, beginning with stories that broke most recently.
UnitedHealth Group, the largest health insurer in the United States in both revenues and enrollment, reported (pdf) a profit of $1.39 billion in the first three months of its fresh 2012 fiscal year — an increase of 3.1 percent from…
Currently, under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, all health insurers must meet a medical loss ratio requirement, which is the amount of total revenue an insurer must spend on patient care and quality improvement as opposed to administrative…