Baylor Health Care System news and information

Modern Healthcare's editorial webinar“Cost Saving in Device Procurement: Innovative Strategies on Physician Preference Items” explored...
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DALLAS—The biggest not-for-profit healthcare player in Texas is now Baylor Scott & White Health, a system formed last week when Baylor Health Care System and Scott & White Healthcare consummated a long-planned merger. The organization has 43...
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Hospitals will be paid nearly the same rates by health plans sold through new state insurance exchanges as by plans sold to employers outside them, analysts and hospital system execs say.
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Baylor Health Care System and Scott & White Healthcare closed on a deal to create Texas' largest not-for-profit health system.
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UnitedHealthcare and about 50 hospitals say they will conduct research comparing some of the costliest medical devices and then use that data to inform their purchasing decisions.
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Baylor College of Medicine said it has tapped Wayne Keathley to be president of the new Baylor College of Medicine Medical Center and Health Network, which is likely to open in phases starting in 2014.
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Baylor Health Care System, Dallas, and Scott & White Healthcare, Temple, Texas, signed an agreement of intent to merge—a move they characterized as designed to prepare their operations for the changes expected as a result of healthcare reform.
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The 928-bed Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas and its affiliated HealthTexas Provider Network have agreed to pay $907,000 to settle whistle-blower allegations that the hospital and physicians fraudulently billed Medicare and Tricare for radiation oncology services between 2006 and 2010.
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Readmissions at an inpatient heart-failure unit at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas plummeted to 7% from 29% in nine months.
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David Muntz, senior vice president and CIO of the Baylor Health Care System, has been named to the position of principal deputy at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
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