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The National Labor Relations Board issued a final rule last week requiring employers to post notices advising employees of their rights to unionize. The new rule, which goes into effect Nov. 14, faced much opposition from businesses that argued that current rules suffice and the board lacks the authority to create such a rule.
The New Jersey company, which works with payers, employers and others to tailor incentive-based preventive health and wellness programs for members and employees, has enhanced its platform to deal with specific conditions, such as diabetes and COPD.
The recruitment demand for specialists such as radiologists and cardiologists has waned in favor of primary care physicians, reports a physician recruitment review by national healthcare search and consulting firm, Merritt Hawkins, an AMN Healthcare company.
SurModics, Inc., a provider of drug delivery and surface modification technologies to the healthcare industry, announced Wednesday a reduction of approximately 9 percent of its total workforce.
Most physicians in medical groups saw an increase in compensation from 2010 to 2011, says a survey by the American Medical Group Association (AMGA), but that good news was tempered by operating losses.
Partners Health Care (the dominant provider network in Greater Boston) and Neighborhood Health Plan (a local mostly-Medicaid HMO) just announced that the former intends to acquire the latter, and maintain it as a separate operating entity.
The National Labor Relations Board ordered a new union election for 43,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers in California after discounting the results of a previous election mired in accusations of misconduct.
Citing an anticipated infusion of $17 million from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services aimed at helping rural hospitals, the Service Employees International Union has called on Baystate Health to back off plans to eliminate 354 jobs.
The United States economy experienced very slight job growth in July. Hiring in the healthcare sector continued to trend upward with the industry adding 31,300 positions.
Many self-help gurus will say it's not helpful to compare yourself to others but a new study released Thursday comparing the administrative costs of physicians' offices in the United States and Canada brings home the point that standardizing administrative operations reduces costs and lessens hassles.