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National health spending in February was 4.8 percent higher than spending during the same month in 2015, according to a new report by the Altarum Institute, marking the fourth consecutive month in which spending growth has been below 5 percent.
At Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Health System, achieving scale meant creating a system-wide supply chain infrastructure rather than allowing each facility to oversee its own device purchasing.
Tenet Healthcare announced Thursday that Howard Hacker has been named senior vice president and chief compliance officer, a role that will begin on May 2. As chief compliance officer, Hacker will manage and oversee the company's ethics and compliance program.
New Jersey-based Hackensack University Medical Center has struck a deal with popular taxi service Uber to provide and help pay for transportation for its patients, staff and visitors.
Reviews of healthcare providers on social media sites like Yelp are filling gaps in traditional ratings programs driven by the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey, a new study in Health Affairs claims.
Montefiore Health System this week rolled out a new branding slogan it hopes will draw attention to the system's legacy in the metro New York area.
Despite recent attention to rising pharmaceutical prices, a new study claims the total costs of treating patients with cancer in the United States have risen no faster than overall costs for Medicare and commercial insurance in the past decade.
Healthcare CEOs are increasingly focused on business-level issues, a new report by The Advisory Board has found, as consumerism continues to reshape the industry.
The sale of Tenet Healthcare Corporation's five Atlanta-area hospitals and related operations to WellStar Health System in exchange for $575 million in cash is complete, the company announced Friday. The sale is effective as of March 31, 2016.
For primary care physicians, the difference is $225,000 a year for men versus $192,000 for women. For specialists, it's $242,000 versus $173,000. However, the salaries of women increased by a greater percentage than their male counterparts.