Jeff Lagasse

Lower-than-expected enrollment in the new insurance exchanges, and significant insurer losses, have resulted in substantial premium increases and insurer withdrawals from state markets.

Cloud-based healthcare supply chain management company Global Healthcare Exchange has acquired Omaha, Nebraska-based H-Card (Hap-X), an automated payment management outfit.

The clinical care model has integrated care teams of health coaches, diabetes educators, pharmacists and resource coordinators.

The concept of image sharing as part of a true enterprise imaging solution strategy was the most important reason for considering a new image sharing vendor, according to the peer60 report.

Among those steps is the creation of a transitional reporting period for the first year, ‪beginning July 1.

The two systems will join forces on clinical programs and research.

Health Care Authority approval exempts hospital merger from federal and state antitrust laws.

Standard and Poor's Global Ratings confirmed its ratings on Washington's Providence Health and Services and California-based St. Joseph Health System will not be affected by the California Attorney General's approval for a merger to proceed.

Pacifica Hospital of the Valley in Los Angeles has agreed to pay $1 million in civil penalties over allegations that it improperly discharged a homeless patient in direct violation of city law and the hospital's homeless discharge protocols.

Aspirus Ontonagon Hospital broke ground this week on a new emergency department expansion and hospital renovation project that it hopes will provide a higher level of urgent care for Michigan's Ontonagon County.