Henry Powderly
Companies listed in the S&P 500 Healthcare Index fell more than 4 percent at market open.
Dialysis center operator DaVita HealthCare Partners on Monday said it would buy competitor Renal Ventures for $415 million, adding another 36 centers in six states.
Brooklyln's famed Maimonides Medical Center will partner with the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System, the healthcare providers announced this week, in a move that will integrate their services but keep them running as independent systems.
Pennsylvania families that faced penalties for Children's Health Insurance Program coverage that did not meet minimum requirements set by the Affordable Care Act are in the clear after Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday said the state expanded its CHIP program.
Walgreens will open 25 new clinics across Oregon and Washington in partnership with hospital operator Providence Health and Services, the company announced on Friday, as the pharmacy chain continues to grow its clinical business.
Though critical access hospitals will continue to earn less, Fitch Ratings this week said it does not expect the financial struggles to affect these hospitals' credit ratings due to their near 100 percent reimbursement from Medicare and political support that will stave off any attempt to cut payments.
St. Mary's Medical Center in Palm Beach, Florida on Monday said it was closing its pediatric cardiothoracic surgery program following a CNN report that pointed to abnormally high mortality rates for the procedure.
CMS on Thursday said 360 organizations have directly entered into bundled payment agreements with the agency, and an additional 1,755 providers have partnered with those organizations as of July. But CMS acting administrator Andy Slavitt in June said there were more than 7,000 providers in the "at-risk" stage of the BPCI model.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services on Wednesday said it would delay enforcement of the controversial two-midnight rule until the beginning of 2016, a change from the September 30 extension laid out in the sustainable growth rate replacement legislation passed by Congress in July.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said it will delay releasing data on its risk corridor ratios for insurers participating in health insurance exchanges after it found several discrepancies in the data.