Tennessee news and information

One of the victims of last year's deadly outbreak of fungal meningitis has suffered a relapse.Rebecca Climer, spokeswoman for Nashville's St. Thomas West Hospital, wrote in an e-mail that a patient was admitted after suffering a reoccurrence of the sometimes-deadly infection.
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Emdeon has replaced CEO George Lazenby with former Oracle executive Neil de Crescenzo.
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What it does: Privately owned Capella develops and operates healthcare facilities primarily in nonurban markets.
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Across the country, doctors are abandoning private practice en masse, a trend attributed in large part to new federal regulations. But some are taking steps to remain independent.
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A dozen providers in a low-income part of the country will receive $5.4 million in federal funding to address a number of chronic conditions that affect residents there at a more frequent rate compared with the rest of the country.
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Nashville healthcare providers looking for a way to meet federal requirements related to electronic health records have a new option. The Tennessee Health eShare Direct Project rolled out statewide this week, following pilot programs in Chattanooga, Memphis and Hickman County that launched in March.
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KINGSPORT, Tenn.—With the help of six employers in northeast Tennessee and southwest Virginia, Wellmont Health System in Kingsport introduced a free community health initiative known as Wellmont LiveWell. Eastman Chemical Co., Food City, Alpha Natural Resources, Domtar Corp.,...
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Humana has filed four federal lawsuits against Farmers Insurance Group of Cos. and related entities, arguing that the Medicare Secondary Payer Act entitles it to reimbursement from Farmers for benefits that Humana paid for Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D plans.
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Hospital medicine and critical-care company Cogent Healthcare has named Dean Weiland president and CEO and a member of its board.
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After years of arguing that the rules to prevent overuse of cardiac stents were too vague, Dr. Elie Korban of Jackson, Tenn., has agreed to settle a civil whistle-blower case that accuses him of manipulating Medicare patients' charts in ways that would justify the costly cardiac interventions.
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