Jeff Lagasse
Kaufman Hall, a financial advisory and management consulting firm, has expanded an existing partnership with the Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas, Texas. Parkland recently upgraded to Kaufman Hall's enhanced financial management software, and also added some cost accounting and capital planning solutions to its repertoire.
A survey from the Florida Hospital Association has found that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is behind on its bills to Florida hospitals -- about $134 million behind. The VA is looking at almost 30,000 unpaid claims in Florida, according to the survey, more than 10,000 of which are over a year old. Almost 6,000 are over two years old.
Perkins County Health Services, in southwestern Nebraska, is opening an expanded medical care facility that Chief Medical Officer Dr. J. Matthew Bird called "historic."
Enthusiasm for gene therapy remains high this week at the annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, despite uneven clinical trials and uncertainty over pricing, according to published reports.
Meridian Health, a New Jersey-based nonprofit healthcare organization, has revamped its patient payer interface by partnering with Patientco, a patient revenue cycle technology company.
ASP Global has acquired InHome Medical Solutions, a Jacksonville, Florida-based distributor of wholesale medical products serving physicians and home health/hospice providers, for an undisclosed amount, ASP announced Tuesday.
The Nasdaq Biotechnology Index and Standard & Poor's Health Care Index both posted their worst opening day of trading in years on Monday, despite the added attention the sector got with the start of the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco.
Ireland-based Shire and Illinois-based Baxalta announced Monday they will be joining forces, merging in a deal estimated to be worth about $32 billion.
Investors are gathering in San Francisco this week for the annual J.P. Morgan healthcare conference, the sector's biggest financial event and one where many biotech deals are expected to be announced.
Newport Health and Northwell Health have combined forces in a new company, Health Connect Technologies, and DuPage Medical Group, an independent, multi-specialty physician group, has officially linked up with growth equity firm Summit Partners.