Susan Morse
Tax deals and donations were not enough to keep the facility open.
Federal Trade Commission says Cardinal violated the FTC Act in monopolizing the sale and distribution of radiopharmaceuticals in 25 markets.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said it expects to include further discussion of the issue in the 2016 prospective payment systems proposal to be published this summer.
Florida Republican Gov. Rick Scott has said he will sue the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for allegedly threatening to withhold other federal funds if the state fails to adopt expansion.
The move boosts Illinois Health and Science’s development of a new, high-capacity radiopharmaceutical production facility in Indianapolis.
The new building will house most pathology test and biopsy processing and will unite in one facility the more than 450 faculty and staff who currently work in 10 locations.
New law reinforces the need for hospitals and health systems to establish strategic ties with physicians, ratings agency says.
The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota will first install Optum360 and then roll out the new system later for other Mayo Clinic facilities.
Former Birmingham Health Care Chief Financial Officer Terri McGuire Mollica diverted $11 million from the Birmingham clinic and Central Alabama Comprehensive Health, which was also under the fiscal control of BHC.
The bill ends years of "doc fixes" to stop mandatory physician pay cuts from taking effect under a SGR formula for controlling costs, a measure most agreed never worked.