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Rush University Medical Center in Chicago has unveiled plans for a $500 million outpatient center, as well as an overhaul of existing facilities in an ongoing effort to renovate and expand.
State insurance exchanges are healthy financially even without the federal funding that ran out this year, a top Obama administration official told a House subcommittee Tuesday. But that official refused to predict if any of the remaining 13 state exchanges would eventually need to shift to the federal exchange.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday said 758 hospitals failed to reach federal targets for hospital-acquired infections and will see a 1 percent payment reduction to all Medicare discharges for a year.
Don Berwick, former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and president emeritus of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement will join the board of the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission, state Attorney General Maura Healey announced this week.
The leaders of the Senate Special Committee on Aging Wednesday targeted the Daraprim spike hike by Turing Pharmaceutical founder Martin Shkreli during the first of a series of hearings investigating abrupt and dramatic price increases in prescription drugs that are no longer protected by patents.
With the signature still wet on the bill, the National Defense Authorization Act will provide $80 million for the construction of a new 102,000 square-foot medical facility in Fort Knox, Kentucky.
St. Louis-based Ascension Health has tapped Accretive Health as its sole revenue cycle system provider, the nonprofit Catholic health system announced this week, under a new 10-year contract extension that includes the total revamp of its revenue cycle system.
The state is the first to receive federal permission to revamp drug and alcohol treatment for beneficiaries of Medicaid, known as Medi-Cal in California. Through what's known as a drug waiver, state officials will have new spending flexibility as they try to improve outcomes and reduce social and financial costs of people with substance abuse disorders.
Technology and connectivity will continue its steady infiltration of the healthcare landscape, branding and trust take priority over convenience, and the advancement and integration of connected health technologies will hinge on cybersecurity in 2016, PwC said.
The Federal Trade Commission announced it is joining forces with the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office to block the merger of Penn State Hershey Medical Center with the PinnacleHealth System.