Anthony Brino
Under the regulations, charitable hospitals have to perform a community health needs assessment at least once every three years, and disclose the programs addressing those needs in annual tax forms with the IRS.
Walgreens said it is cutting ties with two accountable care organizations, though the nation's largest pharmacy chain has also launched a new partnership on the West Coast to help manage ACO patients.
Between online marketplaces for Social Security numbers and data hijackings at Sony and critical access hospitals, catching and preventing fraud has never been more important or dependent on technology.
Leaders at California's Daughters of Charity Health System are scrambling to lock up its controversial acquisition by Prime Healthcare despite a union and government protest that's intent on quashing the deal.
Last week's initial public offering for biotech company Juno Therapeutics could pay dividends for several Seattle-based healthcare providers as the company brings its cancer treatments to market.
The state that was supposed to pioneer single payer healthcare for the nation is dropping the idea. Gov. Peter Shumlin said the comprehensive tax scheme needed to raise more than $2 billion annually would be too disruptive.
Despite the marketing buzz carried by terms like "population health" and "integration," experts say this kind of regionalization works best with partnerships between providers and commercial payers.
More than 40 hospitals have closed since the Great Recession, most of them in rural areas. But in rural, urban and suburban areas alike, providers of all sorts have opened new additions, replacement hospitals or built totally new facilities.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam this week proposed a "private option" Medicaid expansion policy for the state, the latest Republican state executive to back a managed care or market-based approach to bring in federal dollars.
UnitedHealthcare and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center are piloting an episode of care, or bundled, payment model for patients being treated with head and neck cancers, a collaboration they describe as among the first to use bundled payments in a large, comprehensive oncology center.