Richard Pizzi
The California HealthCare Foundation has launched a $10 million investment fund focusing on nonprofit organizations and for-profit companies with innovative services and devices that might significantly reduce costs and improve access to care in California.
Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Health Plan last week reported a combined total operating revenue of $11.1 billion for the third quarter of 2010, compared to $10.5 billion in the same period in 2009.
The Tenet Healthcare Corporation this week reported adjusted earnings of $203 million for the third quarter of 2010, a decrease of $37 million, or 15.4 percent, compared to $240 million for the third quarter of 2009.
Subsidiaries of long-term care giant Kindred Healthcare have signed an agreement to acquire Signature Health Services, LLC, a home health company in Ohio.
The UCLA Center for Health Policy Research says 3 million Californians are enrolled in high-deductible health plans - which are often the only insurance the self-employed or those with low incomes can afford.
The Dinwiddie Nursing & Rehabilitation Center recently became the first healthcare facility in Virginia to embrace clean energy technology with the addition of a solar energy system.
A national study of physician wages conducted by the UC Davis Health System has found that specialists are paid as much as 52 percent more than primary care doctors, even though primary care doctors see far more patients.
A new report reveals that healthcare organizations are seeing slightly fewer medical malpractice claims - and those they are seeing aren't any more expensive than in past years.
The Massachusetts Medical Society's annual Physician Workforce Study shows a fifth consecutive year of primary care physician shortages as well as shortages in 10 of 18 physician specialties across the state.
The credit quality of California’s non-profit hospitals remains strong despite the local severity of the economic downturn and the state's unique operating mandates, according to a new report by Fitch Ratings.