Two years after Nashville-based Vanguard Health Systems' initial public offering, the nation's smallest publicly traded hospital operator said it would join forces with Tenet Healthcare Corp. in an all-cash, $1.8 billion deal. FULL STORY »
Glenview Capital Management, a hedge fund angling for a change of control at Health Management Associates, is now fighting to get the hospital chain to amend its shareholder rights plan. FULL STORY »
GOP lawmakers are digging their teeth into the Obama administration's efforts to solicit help and donations for private groups working to enroll Americans in new coverage under the reform law. FULL STORY »
HCA, Nashville, today reported its final first-quarter results, adding a little more color on a performance it already previewed last month. FULL STORY »
Investor-owned hospital chains continued to report unexceptional first-quarter earnings this week, but good news from the CMS on 2014 Medicare payments renewed investor confidence in the sector. FULL STORY »
As acute-care hospital chains saw their stock prices climb last year, more CEOs exercised stock options—leading to a boost in overall compensation despite more modest pay packages. FULL STORY »
Cleveland Clinic is teaming up with the Community Health Systems, the second-largest for-profit hospital operator in the U.S. Modern Healthcare went to Cleveland for this video feature exploring how and why they're doing it. FULL STORY »
The Cleveland Clinic's unlikely partnership with Community Health Systems is supposed to marry the best of both worlds: an outcomes-driven academic medical center known for handling complex medical cases and the operational discipline of a large and successful investor-owned hospital chain. FULL STORY »
Hospitals in states that elect not to expand their Medicaid programs could find their bottom lines squeezed in coming years as they're hit with higher charity-care costs and fewer insured patients. FULL STORY »
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