Capital Finance
Metropolitan Health Networks will acquire Continucare for $416 million in cash and stock, in a deal that will create a combined entity providing care to more than 68,000 Medicare Advantage and Medicaid customers in 18 Florida counties.
Medical-surgical supply costs have become the second highest and fastest-growing operating expense for providers. In an effort to help curb spending, healthcare technology company GHX released a list at the HFMA-ANI conference in Orlando that aims to give providers greater control in this area.
Many predictions were made early in 2011 about the issues that would challenge healthcare finance leaders this year. Does your experience bear them out?
How can healthcare finance executives drive value for their organizations? That question will be front and center at the upcoming ANI: The Healthcare Finance Conference, sponsored by the Healthcare Financial Management Association.
The Chartis Group has announced a partnership with the Minneapolis-based HealthPartners Medical Group and Clinics to provide advisory services, program management and knowledge transfer designed to improve delivery of ambulatory care services.
Reducing readmissions is becoming increasingly important for hospitals. In the olden days (and still to some extent now) a readmission was simply a new opportunity to earn revenue on the same patient.
On June 6, 2011, CMS published a final rule to implement an Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision that prohibits Medicaid payments for care associated with “provider-preventable conditions” (PPCs).
Supply chain executives at the Premier Breakthroughs conference in Nashville agreed that physicians are getting more involved and enthusiastic about supply chain decisions.
Nashville-based hospital operator, HCA, has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with the Colorado Health Foundation to purchase for $1.45 billion the foundation's 40 percent stake in HCA-HealthONE in Denver.
Three major Kentucky healthcare organizations are forming a statewide healthcare system. The new system created by the University of Louisville Hospital/James Graham Brown Cancer Center, the Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare in Louisville, and Saint Joseph Health System in Lexington will have 91 locations.