Henry Powderly
Invitae has rolled out a one-price-fits-all payment model for its range of tests, charging a set $475 for any test for patients who don't go through their health insurance.
Top services include upper airway endoscopy and nerve injections.
Infections treatments lead to millions in medical charges.
Prudential Real Estate Investors has raised $629 million to be used to buy senior housing.
The 2014 revenue growth for nonprofit and public health systems is a steep jump from the sector's all-time low in 2013.
The deal would add two new affiliated hospitals to Northwestern, one of the largest systems in the region.
According to Irving Levin Associates, the bump could be due to a just-released proposal by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to raise the payment rate for inpatient psychiatric facilities.
With the Oncology Care Model, participating practices will have their chemotherapy treatments tracked and measured for the necessity and outcome of the treatment, as well as the coordination of care that leads up to the cancer treatment.
LifePoint Health, which just this week renamed itself from LifePoint Hospitals, said it will hold an 80 percent stake in the hospital while the remaining 20 percent will be held by the Watertown community.
A new video showing a da Vinci surgical robot suturing a grape has been viewed close to 400,000 times after a post on Buzzfeed highlighted it.