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Majority surveyed by the Newmark Grubb Knight Frank Global Healthcare Services Team, in conjunction with the Building Owners and Managers Association, said their hospital was seeking to own more medical office buildings, with outpatient surgery and health and wellness listed as top targets.

Linda Burt of Nebraska Methodist and Katrina Belt of Baptist Health say analytics gives them the data to reshape their healthcare environments in the transition from fee-for-service to value-based care reimbursement.

The insurer is demanding reductions from what it believes are overpaid hospitals and physicians, while CHI is health is trying to meet it with what it believes are reasonable compromises.

The health system is losing around $6 million a month, and may or may not be able to find a buyer after for-profit hospital chain Prime backed out of an $843 million takeover deal.

Patient advisory councils often serve as sounding boards for hospital leaders -- offering advice on a range of issues.

One issue driving the change: 30.7 percent of insured consumers said that the cost was lower than another source of care.

The market for physician assistants is booming, according to a new report, though earnings vary across specialties.

Proposal also means 19 hospitals now listed as rural would be converted to urban, losing their 14.9 percent payment adjustment.

Good communication between hospitalists and primary care physicians at the time of discharge is critical to patient safety and to the reduction of risk. Unfortunately, this communication has historically been “one way” in the form of a discharge summary.

High-deductible health plans and soaring prices for a new generation of drug therapies making paying for care harder than ever.