Ambulatory Care

Nobilis said the acquisition helps the firm to add an in-network hospital for its patients and providers.

Former Birmingham Health Care Chief Financial Officer Terri McGuire Mollica diverted $11 million from the Birmingham clinic and Central Alabama Comprehensive Health, which was also under the fiscal control of BHC.

Home-based medicine is poised to fix the crises in American healthcare, and old and new companies are getting ready.

Like in previous months, growth in ambulatory healthcare led hiring for the sector with 19,000 jobs added in ambulatory care.

In October 2014 ,the company agreed to pay $350 million and another $39 million in civil forfeiture to resolve claims it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to induce the referral of patients to its dialysis clinics.

Deal makes Tenet largest provider of ambulatory services in the United States.

Transportation problems, physician shortages and hospital closures are central challenges to providing accessible high-quality healthcare in rural areas. But the good news is many initiatives to study rural areas' access issues are underway.

Healthcare hiring continued to pick up last month, with organizations adding 34,000 jobs in December, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly employment report.

An increasing number of healthcare organizations are turning to demand forecasting, crunching numbers to help them determine potential device usage, patient demand and even to decide whether or not to build new facilities.

Hospitals in Georgia have struggled financially in recent years, as uncompensated care costs rose after the recession and the state rejected Medicaid expansion. But one standalone facility decided that affiliation and clinical integration might be the right path to stave off closure.