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By Henry Powderly | 10:48 am | August 04, 2015
Bank SNB and Texas Capital Bank will give Foundation a $10 million acquisition line of credit and an additional $10 million on an incremental basis.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 10:24 am | August 04, 2015
Billions of dollars have been spent on 90 deals over the past decade. See which five companies are responsible.
By Kaiser Health News | 09:30 am | August 04, 2015
Since the fines began, national readmission rates have dropped, but roughly one of every five Medicare patients sent to the hospital ends up returning within a month.
By Susan Morse | 08:54 am | August 04, 2015
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the State of Rhode Island are contracting with a Medicare-Medicaid plan to provide integrated benefits to approximately 30,000 eligible enrollees.
By Anthony Brino | 10:54 pm | August 03, 2015
Community Health Systems is spinning off a group of rural hospitals and aiming to compete in larger metropolitan areas.
By Chuck Green | 03:37 pm | August 03, 2015
While bottom line impact may be tough to measure when it comes to financial investment, patients just want their own bottoms covered.
By Susan Morse | 02:28 pm | August 03, 2015
Accredited hospitals that offer advanced services, are major teaching institutions and have better performance and outcome measures are penalized more frequently than other providers for hospital-acquired conditions, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association that claims to have exposed a major flaw with program.
By Susan Morse | 02:14 pm | August 03, 2015
People enrolling in public health insurance exchanges are more willing to switch plans, placing pressure on insurers to continually win over shoppers based on price, product and service, according to a new report by Deloitte.
By Susan Morse | 11:13 am | August 03, 2015
Financial pressures are causing a growing number of U.S. doctors to leave private practice for hospital employment, according to a new report by Accenture.
By Anthony Brino | 10:30 am | August 03, 2015
While hospitals in Maryland have not brought down the state's total costs of care, the all-payer system seems promising enough to state and federal leaders under universal healthcare coverage.