Bankruptcy news and information

Montefiore Medical Center is buying two more hospitals at fire-sale prices, just months after acquiring bankrupt New York Westchester Square Medical Center.
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The Republican-controlled Arizona Senate passed a state budget that includes expansion of the state Medicaid program.
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SUNY Downstate Medical Center announced Friday afternoon that it has withdrawn a closure plan it filed with the New York State Department of Health for Long Island College Hospital.
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As many doctors struggle to keep their practices financially sound, some are buckling under money woes and being pushed into bankruptcy.
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A Nevada state court jury found the state's largest health management organization liable Thursday for $24 million in compensatory damages to three plaintiffs in a negligence lawsuit stemming from a Las Vegas hepatitis C outbreak that lawyers called the largest in U.S. history.
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SAN DIEGO—Scripps Health entered hospice care as the area's biggest hospice provider continues to scale down its operations under bankruptcy protection. The not-for-profit San Diego Hospice laid off about a third of its employees after disclosing last year that it faced uncertainty...
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San Diego-based Scripps Health has entered hospice care as the area's biggest hospice provider continues to scale down its operations under bankruptcy protection.
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In the debate over tort reform, “five myths of medical malpractice” with “wide currency in medical circles” are frequently repeated in op-ed essays, blog postings and public statements by physicians, including those designated as spokespersons for organized medicine,...
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Highmark said it reached an agreement to buy out bondholders of the financially distressed West Penn Allegheny Health System for 87.5 cents on the dollar.
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Montefiore Medical Center is expected to buy bankrupt New York Westchester Square Medical Center when the Bronx community hospital puts itself on the auction block next month for about $14 million.
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