http://www.modernhealthcare.com Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare en-us 144 21 http://www.modernhealthcare.com http://www.modernhealthcare.com/graphics/icons/rss.gif Mon, 8 Feb 2010 17:45:00 EST Shareholders of the healthcare market research company IMS Health, Norwalk, Conn., have approved an acquisition deal that calls for the company to be purchased by investment funds managed by TPG Capital and CPP Investment Board, according to a news... Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:30:00 EST Excela Health, Greensburg, Pa., has tapped one its trustees, Robert Rogalski, to become CEO of the four-hospital system. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:30:00 EST Xerox Corp. closed on a deal to acquire Affiliated Computer Services in a cash and stock deal valued at approximately $6.4 billion. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:30:00 EST Four acute-care hospitals in South Carolina, along with other regional providers, are banding together to develop a system of care for 149,000 low-income uninsured residents in Charleston and two other counties. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:30:00 EST Health insurance ratings agency A.M. Best Co. held its negative outlook for the sector as high unemployment in 2009 squeezed private health coverage and enrollment in publicly subsidized managed-care plans increased. Mon, 8 Feb 2010 16:30:00 EST HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has called on Anthem Blue Cross of California to release financial data to justify its 39% increase in premium costs for California policyholders -- a number that President Barack Obama cited over the weekend to... Mon, 8 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST President Barack Obama on Sunday underscored a push for a bipartisan solution to health reform, setting a Feb. 25 date for a policy summit with Democrats and Republicans alike in an effort to break a legislative impasse on Capitol Hill. Sun, 7 Feb 2010 05:59:00 EST Adventist Health, a 19-hospital system based in Roseville, Calif., announced that it has signed a letter of intent with the Frank R. Howard Foundation to build a 25-bed replacement hospital in Willits, Calif. Sat, 6 Feb 2010 15:30:00 EST President Barack Obama on Feb. 6 sought to assure despondent Democrats he would not abandon his commitment to overhauling healthcare and would work to counter GOP challenges to their congressional dominance. Sat, 6 Feb 2010 15:00:00 EST No, maybe he can't. President Barack Obama, who insisted he would succeed where other presidents had failed to fix the nation's healthcare system, now concedes the effort may die in Congress.