Richard Pizzi
Pay increase budgets at healthcare organizations have continued to decline over the past year, dashing the hopes of many healthcare workers who hoped for raises in 2010.
Physicians at the City of Hope Medical Group in Monrovia, Calif., have expressed an "overwhelming loss of confidence" in the administration at the world-renowned cancer center.
In a transaction guaranteed to shake up the hospice care industry, home health firm Gentiva Health Services will acquire hospice provider Odyssey HealthCare for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $1 billion.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is informing Medicare beneficiaries about the immediate benefits they may see from the enactment of the Affordable Care Act.
Nine California hospitals have been assessed administrative penalties after the California Department of Public Health determined that the facilities' noncompliance with licensing requirements has caused, or was likely to cause, serious injury or death to patients.
A group of private equity firms active in the healthcare industry have formed a non-profit trade association to support the "reputation, knowledge and relationships" of the healthcare private equity community.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury released a report this week showing that the COBRA health insurance subsidy provided under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has helped middle class families maintain health insurance coverage during the recession.
Accretive Health, a Chicago-based provider of revenue cycle management services for U.S. healthcare providers has launched an initial public offering of 10 million shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $12 per share – well below what company officials had originally intended.
The recently enacted healthcare reform legislation and the recession are among the factors that will slow growth in the nursing home market, according to a new report.
Overall healthcare prices increased 0.2 percent in April and were 3.1 percent higher than a year ago, according to data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.