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EmblemHealth and Northwell Health in New York have agreed to share risk in value-based contracts, EmblemHealth announced March 25.
National health services organization IASIS Healthcare, the Phoenix Suns basketball team, and Phoenix Mercury have joined forces to open a multi-specialty clinic the organizations tout as the first of its kind in the country.
The era of value-based reimbursement is making patient satisfaction a costly thing to ignore, and that goes for the operating room right down to the hospital cafeteria.
Patient perception of value and hospital choice, patient migration and payer mix are among the most serious challenges facing community hospitals in Massachusetts, according to a study released earlier this week by the Massachusetts Health Policy Commission.
A member of the U.S. House of Representatives and a Federal Trade Commission official have called for greater protections against and notification of ransomware attacks - and bolstered cybersecurity for healthcare overall.
Tenet Healthcare Corporation has appointed Eric Evans, chief executive officer of the company's Texas Region, as the new president of Hospital Operations, the company announced Wednesday.
Because more than 80 percent of consumers go to Google to find a doctor, and much of that information is inaccurate, America's Health Insurance Plans has initiated a first-of-its-kind provider directory, AHIP announced on Tuesday.
Methodist Hospital in Henderson, Kentucky, said that it has regained control of its computer systems and effectively fended off a ransomware attack without paying the cybercriminals.
Prime Healthcare Services Inc., a fast-growing national hospital chain, said a malware attack disrupted computer servers on Friday at two of its California hospitals, Chino Valley Medical Center in Chino and Desert Valley Hospital in Victorville.
The new company will encompass 18 hospital campuses in 12 states. Its ranks will swell to 13,000 employees, 2,000 affiliated physicians and $1.7 billion in combined revenue.