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Amedisys, a Louisiana-based home health and hospice company, plans to acquire the hospice operations of Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey.
Aetna has announced a collaboration with Mindbloom, a Seattle-based social media company, that will offer plan members an enhanced version of Life Game, Mindbloom's online social game for personal wellness.
Fifteen percent of U.S. nursing homes receive deficiency citations for infection control each year, according to a new study.
The Thomson Reuters Healthcare Spending Index for Private Insurance showed that costs to people covered under employer-sponsored health insurance rose at a rate of 5.8 percent last year, which was down from 6.6 percent in 2009.
Naples, Fla.-based Health Management Associates is negotiating the acquisition of seven hospitals from Mercy Health Partners - Tennessee, a subsidiary of Catholic Health Partners.
Hospitals across the country have been rocked by nursing strikes over the last year. The coming months show no letup, which means that hospitals will continue to face major disruptions, both financial and otherwise.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services told Florida officials it could not extend the state's current managed care waiver for Medicaid to a statewide program. The pilot program, granted a waiver to run in five counties in 2006, has been the model for recent efforts by the state to reform its Medicaid program.
Community Health Systems Inc. has raised its offer for a takeover of Tenet Healthcare Corp. by 20 percent in what is its final attempt to close a deal between the two rival hospital operators.
Leaders of the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care have said they are alarmed over aspects of the Medicare skilled nursing facility (SNF) payment rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services last Thursday.
The strength of the national healthcare labor market showed improvement across a number of major metropolitan areas in the first quarter of 2011, as measured by the HWS Labor Market Pulse Index, a quarterly barometer of local market healthcare workforce fluctuations.