Poudre Valley Health System in Fort Collins, Colo., and University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora, have completed a joint operating agreement creating University of Colorado Health, according to a University of Colorado news release.
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Westerly (R. I.) Hospital has appointed James O'Keefe CFO and chief restructuring officer, according to a Westerly Sun report.
TeamHealth has announced that its fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2011 results will be released after market close on Feb. 7, according to a company news release.
Healthcare reform is driving efforts to develop integrated delivery models, enhance physician-hospital alignment and collaboration and explore formation of Accountable Care Organizations. As part of this discussion, the concept of "clinical co-management" is often raised. This happens, generally, in one…
Healthcare reform is driving efforts to develop integrated delivery models, enhance physician-hospital alignment and collaboration and explore formation of Accountable Care Organizations. As part of this discussion, the concept of "clinical co-management" is often raised. This happens, generally, in one…
The following is excerpted with permission from the blog, "Not Running a Hospital," authored by Paul Levy, former CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. I was talking about public reporting the other day with an MD colleague.…
A judge in the Northern District of Illinois today began to hear arguments in the Federal Trade Commission's challenge of Peoria, Ill-based OSF Healthcare's acquisition of Rockford (Ill.) Health, according to a Rockford Register Star report.
CMS has redistributed its Medicare-funded residency slots, increasing the number of slots at 88 teaching hospitals, according to an AHA News Now report.
CMS will not propose any changes to the current Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, which requires hospitals to stabilize all patients that present with an emergency medical condition regardless of their ability to pay, according to an AHA News…
CMS has announced that anesthesia codes that include the phrase "not otherwise specified" in their descriptions (including procedure codes 00100-01996) do not meet the criteria of a non-specified procedure code, according to an ASA release.