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The big squeeze | CHS-HMA merger tightens the vise on independent hospitals
By Beth Kutscher | August 03, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The proposed $3.9 billion tie-up between Community Health Systems and HMA highlights the rise of the hospital mega-system as a response to declining inpatient volumes and payment rates.
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Room for negotiation?
By Beth Kutscher | August 03, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Community Health Systems faces pressure to sweeten its $3.9 billion cash and stock bid for Health Management Associates, with HMA's largest shareholder calling it too low.
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Activist shareholder skeptical of Community's bid for HMA
By Beth Kutscher | July 30, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Community Health Systems' $3.9 billion bid to acquire Health Management Associates is facing a skeptical reaction from the hedge fund shareholder that had been pushing for a deal in the first place.
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Late News: Sour earnings report | Federal inquiry, bad debt shake Community Health
By Beth Kutscher | July 20, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Community Health Systems' earnings preview—which showed larger-than-expected drops in patient volume and net income—may set the stage for a difficult quarter going into earnings season for publicly traded hospital operators.
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CEO jackpot | Industry executives continue to see big payouts despite spending declines and cost-cutting
By Melanie Evans | May 11, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals had a breakthrough year in 2012, and its top scientist, Dr. George Yancopoulos, led Modern Healthcare's list of the health industry's highest-paid execs for the year.
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100 Most Influential People in Healthcare - 2013 (nominees' titles and affiliations)
May 04, 2013
The 300 nominees for Modern Healthcare's 12th annual 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare competition.
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Campbell elected chairman of FAH
By Rachel Landen | March 04, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The Federation of American Hospitals has elected Victor Campbell to a one-year term as chairman, effective immediately.
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2012 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare (text list)
By Modern Healthcare | August 25, 2012
This year's ranking of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare includes 18 newcomers as well as eight honorees who have been on every list since it started in 2002.
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A senator with staying power
By Modern Healthcare | August 25, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
A U.S. senator for 31 years and the author of more than 2,000 sometimes hard-to-decipher Twitter messages, Chuck Grassley also has had a long run on the annual 100 Most Influential rankings.
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Payday for payers | Compensation of the top execs at investor-owned insurers outpaced that of the leaders at hospitals and specialty care
By Beth Kutscher | August 11, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Despite last year's uncertainty about the future of the reform law, healthcare executives took home more money than those in any other sector on the S&P 500, with insurance execs topping the list.
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