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• Company Profile for Picis

  - 2005-01-21

  Picis delivers proven information systems for high-acuity care - the emergency department, the operating room and intensive care. Picis systems are installed in more than 900 medical centers and IDNs worldwide, automating more surgical procedures, emergency visits and intensive care stays than any other system in the world. Clients include...

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• California Public Employees' Pension System Drops 36 Hospitals from HMO Plan.

  - 2004-05-19

  By Gilbert Chan, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 19--The California Public Employees' Retirement System, the state's largest buyer of health care, took a dramatic stand Tuesday against rising hospital costs as it moved to drop 36 hospitals ...

  Tags: Benefits, CalPERS, HEALTHCARE, hospital, pension, SOFTWARE, Sutter Health

• California Pension System Pushes Reforms to Cut Hospital Costs.

  - 2004-04-20

  By Lisa Rapaport, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 20--CalPERS charged ahead Monday with its crusade to curb health spending by cutting hospital costs, unveiling a bill that could address many of its financial disputes with Sutter Health while...

  Tags: Benefits, CalPERS, HEALTHCARE, HMO, hospital, SOFTWARE, Sutter Health

• California Public Employees' Retirement System Trustees Move on Health Policy.

  - 2004-03-17

  By Lisa Rapaport, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 17--Trustees of the California Public Employees' Retirement System said Tuesday they will move ahead with plans to restrict state workers' access to Sutter Health next year unless the 26-hospital...

  Tags: Benefits, CalPERS, HEALTHCARE, hospital, Sutter Health

• California Public Retirees' Health Plan Drops 45 Most Expensive Hospitals.

  - 2004-02-19

  By Lisa Rapaport, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 19--The California Public Employees Retirement System jolted the health care industry Wednesday with a plan to save about $72 million in medical premiums by dropping coverage for government workers ...

  Tags: Benefits, CalPERS, HEALTHCARE, hospital, Sacramento, SOFTWARE, Sutter Health

• Union Asks for Audit of Sacramento, Calif.-Based Hospital Chain.

  - 2003-04-16

  By Lisa Rapaport, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 16--One of the state's largest health care unions Wednesday accused Sutter Health of "price gouging" and asked the California Public Employees Retirement System to audit the Sacramento-based hospital chain....

  Tags: audit, Benefits, CalPERS, HEALTHCARE, hospital, Sutter Health

• End of Contract Between Health Insurers Means Confusion for Consumers.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

  - 2001-01-14

  Jan. 12--Ever since the contract between Blue Cross of California and Sutter Health ended Dec. 31, purchasers and consumers of health insurance have been getting a crash course in the true meaning of network disruption. And they don't like what they see. ...

  Tags: Benefits, Blue Cross Blue Shield, CalPERS, HEALTHCARE, SOFTWARE, Sutter Health

• Inquiries May Stall Offering of Pension Plan at Sacramento, Calif., Firm.

  - 1999-09-17

  Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 18 -- Internal Revenue Service and congressional inquiries into a controversial new pension plan could cause delays for a Sacramento company that wanted to start its plan by Jan. 1. Sutter Health is poised to submit a...

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