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Boston-based Partners HealthCare and Salt Lake City-based Health Catalyst have agreed to team up to create the Partners HealthCare Center for Population Health and will share best practices, intellectual property, technology and training in an effort to boost its population health management.
Standard & Poor's has changed its outlook on nonprofit healthcare from 'negative' to 'stable,' the credit agency reported this week, as a flood of mergers and increased utilization due to Medicaid expansion continues to lift the sector.
According to the announcement, Yeshiva University, which had run the college through a previous affiliation with Montefiore, will still manage academic oversight and issue all degrees.
The fate of many other health programs, from the National Institutes of Health to efforts to reduce teen pregnancy, hang in the balance as well, as lawmakers decide whether and how to fund the government after the current fiscal year expires Sept. 30.
Ownership by a hospital "dramatically increases" odds that a doctor will admit patients there instead of another, nearby hospital, researchers found.
The Columbus Regional Hospital System in Georgia has agreed to pay the state and federal governments $25 million, and potentially another $10 million, to resolve allegations that it overbilled Medicare and paid kickbacks to a medical director for referrals, according to Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens in a Sept. 4 announcement.
IRS rules for curbing collections abuse among nonprofit hospitals are not specific enough and should also include for-profit providers, according to a new report in the AMA Journal of Ethics that blasts healthcare providers over some of their billing practices.
In a just-released report on publicly traded healthcare companies, Goldman named Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Clovis Oncology, Pacira Pharmaceuticals, Sage Therapeutics, Evolent Health and Brookdale Senior Living as companies that make attractive targets to buyers.
Community Health Systems moved one step closer to its planned spin-off of Quorum Health Corp. last week. The for-profit healthcare giant filed its Form 10 with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the transaction that would create Quorum as a separate for-profit company.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Tuesday announced a plan to reduce disparities in healthcare for Medicare beneficiaries who belong to minority population, live with a disability or who reside in a rural area.