Jeff Lagasse
Post-acute care provider Genesis HealthCare announced Wednesday it has signed an agreement to sell the majority of its home health and hospice operations to Compassus, a nationwide network of community-based hospice and palliative care programs, for $84 million.
Rising prices and big-dollar medications are leading to increases in prescription drug spending, the Department of Health and Human Services has found.
Large hospitals are more likely to have a contract with an accountable care organization, and those participating in ACOs were more likely to be in heavily-populated urban areas, new findings from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice revealed.
The healthcare sector represented the largest share of initial public offerings by deal count in 2015, says a report released Tuesday by Proskauer's Capital Markets Group.
The state of Vermont announced it has reduced the amount it pays the University of Vermont Medical Center, as well as six other hospitals, to treat Medicaid patients.
A recent analysis by the Health Care Cost Institute has found that less than 7 percent of total healthcare spending in 2011 was paid by consumers for what it called "shoppable" services.
LAS VEGAS -- Technological innovation is used often in healthcare to improve patient outcomes, but when it comes to children, aggregating data at the individual and population level is critical, said Stephen Quirk, CEO of Youth Emergency Services and Shelter in Des Moines, Iowa, and Larry Seltzer, general manager and senior director of Netsmart, in a presentation at HIMSS16 on Wednesday.
UCLA has sold its royalty interest connected with a leading prostate cancer medication, Xtandi, the development of which was based on discoveries by campus researchers, for just over $1 billion, UCLA announced over the weekend.
Technological innovation is used often in healthcare to improve patient outcomes, but when it comes to children, aggregating data at the individual and population level is critical, said Stephen Quirk, CEO of Youth Emergency Services and Shelter in Des Moines, Iowa, and Larry Seltzer, general manager and senior director of Netsmart, in a presentation at HIMSS16 on Wednesday.
LAS VEGAS -- Online and mobile tools can improve not just patient engagement and health outcomes, but a physician practice's bottom line. That was the message from David Weinstock, MD, and Raymond Magner of Grove Medical Associates in Auburn, Massachusetts, speaking about health technology at HIMSS16 on Wednesday in Las Vegas.