Jeff Lagasse

Model uses simulations to come up with strategies based on a host of desired outcomes.

Executive team should assess organization's strengths, weaknesses, growth opportunities in revenue and value, Deloitte says.

In a call with investors on Wednesday, CHS CEO Wayne Smith said the company expects to raise $1.2 billion through the sale of its hospitals and other assets.

The highest-paid physician executives on average earned $499,000, and served in emerging roles that include physician in chief, chief strategy officer, chief transformational officer, chief innovation officer and chief integration officer.

Clinicians will also be able to bill, and be paid, more appropriately when they spend more time with their patients.

The announcement comes on the heels of a failed merger bid between Southcoast and Care New England, which would have created the third largest health system in Massachusetts.

Deal shifts day-to-day operations management of LifePoint's home health agencies and hospices, as well as all future home health and hospice acquisitions, to LHC Group.

Sixty-two percent in the survey said their healthcare costs either increased or stayed the same when compared to their previous plan.

Executive touts remote care platform for episodic, bundled and chronic care management programs.

FairChex found that, depending on the procedure, consumers looking at hospital ratings may choose a hospital for care not knowing they perform poorly in a certain procedure, effectively resulting in poor quality delivered at the highest cost.