Far Rockaway, N.Y.-based Peninsula Hospital is working with the official committee of its unsecured creditors to file a joint reorganization plan by this week, according to a Deal Pipeline report.
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HMS Holdings, a major player in CMS' Recovery Audit Program for both Medicaid and Medicare, reported net income of $11.1 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2011, a decrease of roughly 10 percent from the same period a…
Illinois hospitals spent more than $6.6 billion in two years to build new hospitals and update old ones, according to a Chicago Tribune report.
United Medical Center, based in Washington, D.C., is seeking $15 million from local taxpayers to help keep the hospital afloat, according to a Washington Post report.
Two executives who used to work at Quincy (Mass.) Medical Center and were fired after Boston-based Steward Health Care bought the hospital now seek severance payments for a combined $603,000, according to a Patriot Ledger report.
Cerberus Capital Management — the owner of Boston-based Steward Health Care — is being portrayed as money-hungry for investing in fracking, a controversial oil and gas extraction method, according to a Boston Globe report.
Instead of cutting a proposed $2 billion from the state Medicaid program, the Illinois Hospital Association has urged the state to raise taxes on junk food, soda and cigarettes to bring in extra revenue, according to a WQAD report.
Nail picks and brushes during the surgical scrub process may not enhance hand hygiene, according to research published in the American Journal of Infection Control.
Officials from the U.S. Department of Justice are reviewing Pittsburgh-based Highmark's proposed $475 million acquisition of West Penn Allegheny Health System to determine if it would violate antitrust laws, according to a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review report.
Roughly half of hospitals across the country now charge patients an upfront fee to go through the emergency department, and although it is reducing hospital bad debt, healthcare advocates argue the practice could be harmful to patients, according to a…