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- Healthcare Roundup: Possible Health Net Probe, Another Chicago Hospital Closes, ICD-10 Costs Criticized, and More
- Healthcare Roundup: Possible Health Net Probe, Another Chicago Hospital Closes, ICD-10 Costs Criticized, and MoreRE: Healthcare Roundup: Possible Health Net Probe, Another Chicago Hospital Closes, ICD-10 Costs Criticized, and MoreThe Catholic Health Association CHA faced the similar question re. Community Benefit, and member hospitals got together to define guidelines to...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-20
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- Healthcare Roundup- Blitz Trader, because timing is everything.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-6 January 2006-BlitzTrader.com: Healthcare Roundup- Blitz Trader, because timing is everythingC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06012006 Clear Lake, TX - Amgen Inc (NASDAQ: AMGN), Bayer AG (NYSE: BAY), Complete Care Medical (OTC: CCMI), GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK), Merck (NYSE: MRK), and...
- Research articles 2006-01-06
- Healthcare Roundup: More Uninsured, Less Medicare Savings, Hospital Cost Cutting, Retail Clinics Do Chronic Care, and More
- Healthcare Roundup: Number of uninsured rises, Medicare cost savings questioned, hospitals try to reduce costs and more. by Ken Terry
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Healthcare Roundup: Merger Guidelines Revisited, Insurance Antitrust Bill, California Health Jobs and More
- Healthcare Roundup by Ken Terry
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- Healthcare Roundup: CBO Scores Senate Bill, SEC Probes HCA, Global Cap on Trial in Mass., and More
- Healthcare roundup of recent news by Ken Terry
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- Healthcare Roundup: Medicare Payments Up, Prime Acquires New Hospital, Gender Bias in Health Insurance, and More
- Medicare reimbursement mini-roundup -- Doctors will get a 1.1 percent bump in Medicare payments starting in January, and additional bonuses for using e-prescribing technology. Meanwhile, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services will hike hospital outpatient payments by 3.6 percent, but held rates for ambulatory surgical centers flat. And CMS...
- Blog posts 2008-10-31
- Healthcare Roundup: Insurer Antitrust Exemption in Danger, GE Starts Investment Fund, Healthcare Mergers Up, and More
- Healthcare news roundup. by Ken Terry
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Healthcare Roundup: Stent Makers Pay Up, New York Pays Hospitals to Close, and More
- Stent makers forced to pay J&J $1.2BÂ --Â Medtronic and Boston Scientific lost separate patent-infringement cases regarding their bare-metal stents to Johnson & Johnson, and now owe J&J $521 million and $703 million, respectively. Oddly enough, Boston Scientific pulled the offending blood-vessel scaffolds from the market four years ago. [Source:...
- Blog posts 2008-10-02
- Healthcare Roundup: Mass Blues Cut Admin Costs, Hawaii Drops Child Healthcare, and More
- Massachusetts Blues focus on internal cost-cutting -- In a departure for the managed-healthcare field, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts aims to rein in its own administrative costs as a way of coping with the erosion of employer-based health insurance and competition. The move strikes a sharp contrast with...
- Blog posts 2008-10-17
- Healthcare Roundup: Industry Asks Congress To Go Easy, Target Supports Employer Mandate, United and Cisco Team on Telehealth, and More
- Healthcare Leaders Are Nervous â€" A broad cross-section of healthcare companies, including hospitals, physician groups, pharmaceutical firms, and device makers, plus a few insurance companies, sent the Congressional leadership a letter begging them to take a centrist stance on healthcare reform. The 42 members of the Healthcare Leadership Council asked...
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- Healthcare Roundup: Aetna Layoffs, Lakeside Absorbed, ASCs Rake in Profits, Retail Clinics Forecast to Grow, and More
- Latest roundup of healthcare news. by Ken Terry
- Blog posts 2009-11-22
- Healthcare Roundup: Cardinal Health Spinoff, Hospitals Ditch Debt, and More
- Cardinal Health to spin off clinical, medical-product units -- The healthcare-services company said it will form a new $4 billion spinoff firm from units that handle distribution of surgical and medical products. Cardinal will retain drug and medical-supply chain services under its own roof. [Source: Health Data Management] ...
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Healthcare Roundup: No HLTH-WebMD Merger, Higher Medicaid Spending, Mental-Health Parity, and More
- HLTH, WebMD call off merger -- HLTH, a holding company that currently owns 84 percent of the publicly traded WebMD, pulled the plug on a proposed merger with that subsidiary. The companies cited financial-market uncertainty and difficulty finding a buyer for a second HLTH unit, Porex, which makes plastic products...
- Blog posts 2008-10-20
- Healthcare Roundup: McKesson to Pay $350M, Insurance Consolidation, No Advantage to Advantage Plans, and More
- McKesson agrees to $350M drug-cost settlement -- The major drug and medical-supplies distributor said it will pay $350 million to settle allegations that it conspired to inflate the cost of drugs for consumers and health-insurance providers. McKesson still faces similar lawsuits brought by federal, state and local agencies. [Source: Modern...
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- Healthcare Roundup: Aetna Pink Slips, MCO Recession Forecast, OIG Investigations, and More
- Aetna pink slips -- Just after predicting that its earnings per share would grow 3 to 5 percent in 2009, Aetna announced it was going to lay off 1,000 of its employees, or about 3 percent of its workforce. Ronald A. Williams, chairman and CEO of Aetna, said the layoffs...
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- Healthcare Roundup: MedPac and Hospitals, E-prescribing Savings, IT Worker Shortage, and More
- MedPAC to hospitals: Suck it up - Although hospitals nationwide have seen their average margins go negative, Medicare is still paying them enough, says Glenn Hackbarth, chairman of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission MedPAC. Testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee, Hackbarth did not dispute a projection that the...
- Blog posts 2009-03-18
- Healthcare Roundup: United Proposes Reforms, Medical Home Update, Tenet Teams with Med3000, and More
- United The Reformer â€" UnitedHealth Group has proposed reforms that it says could save government health programs more than $540 million over the next decade. Under the big insurer’s approach, Uncle Sam would help healthcare providers reduce medical errors, improve chronic disease care, and do better case management. Adoption of...
- Blog posts 2009-05-29
- Healthcare Roundup: Tenet Loses $3M, AAFP-Coke Deal Draws Protests, Device Makers Restricted, and More
- Tenet Sees Silk Purse in Sow's Ear - Tenet Healthcare lost $3 million in the third quarter, compared to a $103 million gain in the prior-year period. The for-profit hospital chain also saw its bad debt jump to $190 million for the quarter, 17 percent...
- Blog posts 2009-11-04
- Healthcare Roundup: Wal-Mart Offers Employee PHRs, Health Plan Collapses, and More
- Wal-Mart offers employees personal-health records -- The retail giant said it would offer its employees electronic PHRs based on technology from WebMD and Dossia, an employer coalition. The company will pre-fill those records with prescription-drug and medical-treatment information from pharmacies and health-insurance companies. Of course, there's a catch: The plan...
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- Healthcare Roundup: Anthem Blue Cross Sued, Hospitals Slow Expansions, GM Cuts Healthcare, and More
- Anthem Blue Cross sued for rescission-settlement efforts -- Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo sued the health-insurance company, a unit of WellPoint, charging that it illegally sought to reach settlements with policyholders by offering them $1,000 in exchange for dropping all legal claims. Anthem and several other health plans recently...
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
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