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One of the nation's largest insurers last week closed on a $1 billion deal to become a large integrated delivery system with a pledge that newly acquired hospitals and doctors would deliver savings for enrollees and patients.
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Steward Health Care System is blaming Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island for tanking its bid to buy Landmark Medical Center in Woonsocket, R.I.
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Not-for-profit healthcare systems continued to struggle with underfunded pension liabilities last year, and the situation has become even more challenging since 2011.
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More than six months after Trinity Health and Catholic Health East officials announced plans to merge, the organizations have closed the deal and officially formed a health system that includes more than 70 hospitals in 21 states.
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In its newly released proposed inpatient hospital payment rule for 2014, the CMS plans a slew of performance-based payment changes, including a penalty program for hospital-acquired conditions and updates to the agency's readmissions reduction program that would expand the parameters for...
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A Moody's Investors Service report shows that five out of the six not-for-profit hospitals that saw their credit ratings fall in the first quarter were facilities with under $500 million in revenue.
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Bryan Luce has been named the first chief science officer of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, a Washington-based independent not-for-profit established by the healthcare reform law to fund and promote comparative-effectiveness research.
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UPMC, a not-for-profit health system with its tax-exempt status under attack, is fighting back with a lawsuit against its hometown and mayor.
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Hospitals earn higher profit margins when their patients experience surgical complications, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Susan Dentzer is leaving her post as VP and editor-in-chief of Health Affairs to join the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Washington office, according to a spokesman for Project HOPE, the not-for-profit that operates the health policy journal.
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