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Fresenius agrees to sell 60 facilities as part of Liberty deal
By Paul Barr | February 28, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The Federal Trade Commission has compelled Fresenius Medical Care to sell 60 outpatient dialysis clinics in 43 markets as a condition of buying Liberty Dialysis Holdings for $2.1 billion.
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Alaska's heart was willing on doc-fix letter
January 27, 2012
Some 110 physician groups signed a recent letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) urging Congress to use leftover military contingency funds for a "cleaning of the books" that...
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Stimulus money at work | ARRA-funded projects start to open for business
By Andis Robeznieks | January 14, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The new Eagle Butte Health Center in South Dakota is set to open for business this week. The 10-bed, 138,000-square-foot Indian Health Service facility was paid for with $84.5 million from the stimulus law.
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Mass., Alaska tops in healthcare spending
By Jessica Zigmond | December 07, 2011 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
In the past decade, states with the highest per-capita healthcare spending tended to have older populations and higher per-capita incomes, while states that spent less on healthcare had younger populations, lower per-capita incomes and a higher rate of uninsured, according to a CMS paper published...
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Three healthcare organizations win Baldrige awards
By Maureen McKinney | November 22, 2011 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Three healthcare organizations are among the four winners of the 2011 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards, announced Nov. 22. The awards recognize top-performing organizations for excellence in innovation, efficiency and quality improvement. This year's winners were chosen from a field of 69...
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Western union | Providence, Swedish forging new system in Wash.
By Vince Galloro | October 10, 2011 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Providence Health & Services and Swedish Health Services say their local solution to the national problem of improving care while lowering costs is to combine their western Washington operations in a new not-for-profit system.
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Alaska clinic focuses on Medicare patients
By Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News | August 29, 2011
In South Anchorage, Alaska, a new kind of medical center is trying to make it financially based on payments from Medicare.
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Trump Card? | Appeals court ruling could affect CON laws
By Joe Carlson | August 29, 2011 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Ruling that hospitals' interstate-commerce rights may trump state certificate-of-need laws, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle decided that the state of Washington didn't have clear congressional authority to prevent a hospital from performing lucrative elective procedures like stent...
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States limited in ability to verify EHR incentives eligibility: report
By Joseph Conn | July 19, 2011 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
All but one state in a recent survey of 13 states plan to hand out payments under the federally backed Medicaid electronic health-record incentive payment program without checking first whether providers have met all eligibility requirements,
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Dennis Keefe named president and CEO of Care New England Health System, and other moves
By Modern Healthcare | June 27, 2011 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The board of Care New England Health System, Providence, R.I., chose Dennis Keefe to succeed John Hynes as president and CEO. Keefe is set to assume leadership of the three-hospital system Aug. 1. Hynes, 65, who has been Care New England's top executive since its formation in 1996,...
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