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More than 200 of California's 400 acute care hospitals have buildings that are in danger of collapse during an earthquake and must be replaced by 2013, according to a new report.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon signed a bill into law last week that requires health insurance companies to speed up claims payments to physicians, hospitals and other healthcare providers.

athenahealth has signed a contract to provide revenue cycle management services to Lourdes Medical Associates, a Haddon Heights, N.J.-based healthcare management association.

Pharmaceutical manufacturers Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical LLC and Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., both subsidiaries of Johnson & Johnson, will pay more than $81 million to resolve criminal and civil liability in the illegal promotion of the epilepsy drug Topomax.

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee has partnered with Health Dialog, a Boston-based provider of healthcare analytics and decision support, to deliver 24/7 health coaching services to 42,000 Medicare Advantage members in the Volunteer State.

LifePoint Hospitals, Inc., has agreed to purchase Sumner Regional Health Systems, a hospital system serving 11 counties in the northern middle Tennessee region.

One month after the passage of the healthcare reform bill, federal officials say progress has been made in improving healthcare coverage for Americans.

A new children's hospital under construction in Chicago is more than 50 percent complete and slated to open in 2012.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services revised its rating outlook to positive from stable on debt issued for UMass Memorial Medical Center, part of UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester, Mass.

Hospital outpatient surgical visits increased 4.5 percent in 2009 compared with 2008, according to SDI, a healthcare market insight and analytics firm.