Lumeris, a St. Louis-based company that provides cloud-based services and software for accountable care delivery, has teamed up with three health plans to buy NaviNet, a healthcare communications network used by physicians, payers and hospitals. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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House Republican leaders said they will introduce a bill to extend a middle-class payroll tax holiday in legislation that won't include a solution to Medicare's sustainable growth rate formula for physicians.
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Utah conservatives have kept anti-federal health reform rhetoric to a murmur this legislative session.
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Healthcare industry groups were quick to criticize the Obama administration's fiscal 2013 budget, referring to the plan as both shortsighted and unfair to providers.
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Ninfa Saunders, president and chief operating officer of Virtua Health, has stepped down in order to help her son recover from injuries he suffered in a car accident, the system said in an e-mailed statement.
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Despite growing reliance on satisfaction scores for evaluating doctor performance, “research suggests a tenuous link between patient satisfaction and healthcare quality,” a study says.
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No. 1, this is a First Amendment rights issue and not a woman's choice or woman's healthcare issue. This is the government interfering with religious rights and religious freedoms.
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Rhode Island Hospital in Providence has agreed to pay the federal government $5.3 million to resolve allegations that the medical center improperly kept about 260 patients in overnight stays after stereotactic radiosurgery, otherwise known as Gamma Knife treatments, according to an announcement from federal officials.
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AmerisourceBergen Corp. said that Michael DiCandilo, executive vice president and chief financial officer for 10 years, left the drug distribution and services company.
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