Arizona news and information

Bisbee, Ariz., is a former mining town of about 6,700 people, some 12 miles north of the Mexican border. It's now known as an enclave of sorts for artists and hippies. But while it has attracted galleries and coffeehouses, it has struggled to find healthcare providers.
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Connecticut hospitals would win big under the CMS' latest update of its controversial rural-floor policy. The latest agency calculations project hospitals in the state will see a $75 million boost in fiscal 2014, compared to $16.7 million in the current fiscal year.
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Vanguard Health Systems, Nashville, has received a bit of good news out of Arizona after losing a Medicaid managed-care contract from the state that will cost it significant segment revenue.
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Federal authorities say a Phoenix-based hospice has agreed to pay $12 million to resolve allegations of submitting false claims to Medicare.
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Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix has named Dr. Steve Narang its CEO.
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Greg Vigdor is the new president and CEO of the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association as of March 4. Vigdor joins the Phoenix-based organization from Seattle, where he has been president and CEO of the Washington Health Foundation since its founding in 1992. Vigdor takes over the...
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Greg Vigdor is the new president and CEO of the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association.
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About 100 people strolled into the lobby of Utah Gov. Gary Herbert's office Friday and piled up colorful paper-link chains meant to represent the state's uninsured that would be covered by Medicaid expansion.
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A study that looked at scope-of-practice laws in six states concluded that the laws don't restrict the breadth of primary-care services that nurse practitioners offer patients, but the laws still affect payer policies which then curtail how and where NPs can practice.
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No states appear to have implemented a temporary Medicaid physician pay boost more than eight weeks after it was supposed to have gone into effect, according to provider groups tracking the issue.
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