Community Health System's Longview (Texas) Regional Medical Center has announced plans to merge its operations with Diagnostic Clinic of Longview, a multispecialty clinic, according to a CHS news release.
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Aetna has launched a patient-centered medical home program for primary care physicians in Connecticut and New Jersey.
Accountable care organizations could make the American health insurance industry unnecessary by 2020, according to New York Times columnist Ezekial Emanuel.
Louisville, Ky.-based Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare has entered into an agreement to acquire Louisville Surgical Associates.
During an affiliation between Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix and Wills Eye Institute in Philadelphia, Pa., Vantage Outsourcing helped improve operating efficiencies and control costs, according to a Vantage news release.
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From 2010-2011, 56 percent of Merritt Hawkins' search assignments were for hospitals, according to the Merritt Hawkins 2011 Review of Physician Recruiting Incentives.
Mercy Medical Center – Des Moines (Iowa) has restructured its leadership to integrate clinical and administrative functions across the organization.
Signature Hospitals, the parent of St. Joseph Hospital in Parkersburg, W.Va., has agreed to pay $4.7 million to employees for sick leave benefits the employees allege they lost when the hospital merged with Camden Clark Medical Center, also in Parkersburg,…
Jack Stewart, MD, a Tacoma, Wash.-based orthopedic surgeon subspecializing in hand surgery, discusses why he decided to sell his practice to a hospital and finalizing the transaction.
WellPoint will increase its regular reimbursement to primary care physicians this summer and also pay them up to 50 percent more if they maintain or improve quality, according to a news release from the insurer.