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As the investigation into a fatal outbreak of fungal meningitis continues, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration proposed Friday that the agency gain new authority to regulate pharmacy compounding, including charging fees to fund an expanded safety framework.
Healthcare reform and financial and operational pressures will shape how hospitals and systems define and act on ambulatory care unit (ACU) strategies, according to a report from Jones Lang LaSalle.
Community Health Systems, one of the largest publicly-traded hospital systems in the country, and Cleveland Clinic have announced a strategic alliance aimed at allowing the two organizations to share clinical information to improve care and operational efficiency.
Many healthcare leaders around the country are agreeing that 2013 is going to be a challenging year for hospitals and healthcare systems, and many are going to have to refine their thinking, said Jeff Jones, managing director at Huron Healthcare, a healthcare consulting firm.
The highest level of healthcare consolidation since the turn of the millennium occurred during 2012 and it is expected to continue - if not accelerate - going forward, a new report from Chicago-based Fitch Ratings contends.
WellPoint's board of directors have selected Joseph Swedish to head the company after last August's investor-stoked departure of Angela Braly.
The Miami Beach Community Health Center (MBCHC) is suing its former accountants for failing to reveal a $6.8 million "theft" by its former chief executive officer.
WellPoint Inc., the second largest health insurer in the country, today reported fourth quarter and 2012 earnings that beat analysts' estimates, driven primarily by medical expenditures that were lower than the company expected.
Becoming a behavioral health home is a real opportunity but comes with some challenges. A webinar offered by SAMHSA/HRSA outlined some operational considerations for behavioral health agencies thinking about making the transformation.
If hospitals launching health plans strikes some as a sign of traditional health insurance's coming extinction, the business model so many American hospitals were built upon -- fee-for-service -- is declining too. Integrated healthcare and shared savings contracts between payers and providers are going to become the norm.