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By Rachel Landen | March 04, 2013 | Basic Web

The Federation of American Hospitals has elected Victor Campbell to a one-year term as chairman, effective immediately.
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HHS lets Fla. proceed with managed-care push

By Beth Kutscher | February 20, 2013 | Basic Web

The state of Florida won a second victory from HHS that will help the state introduce a statewide Medicaid managed-care program.
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Prime Healthcare to buy two Kansas hospitals

By Ashok Selvam | January 31, 2013 | Basic Web

Prime Healthcare Services has reached an agreement to buy two Catholic hospitals in Kansas from SCL Health System.
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Reform brightens for-profit outlook; chains see share prices surge

By Beth Kutscher | January 27, 2013 | Basic Web

Despite worries about a storm of reimbursement cuts expected to rain on all sectors of the healthcare industry, shares of for-profit hospital operators remained buoyant in the early weeks of 2013.
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Video Feature: Hospital M&A activity increases in 2012

By Modern Healthcare | January 26, 2013

Reporter Paul Barr recaps the highlights of Modern Healthcare's 19th Annual Mergers and Acquisitions Report. Joint venture deals continued to be popular in 2012, while not-for-profit hospitals and systems were big buyers and sellers.
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Judge orders HCA to pay foundation $162 million

By Joe Carlson | January 24, 2013 | Basic Web

A judge has ordered HCA to pay a charitable foundation $162 million and undergo extensive auditing after finding HCA broke key agreements in its purchase of hospitals from Health Midwest in 2002.
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High court quashes hospitals' hopes of recouping underpayments

By Joe Carlson | January 22, 2013 | Basic Web

In a unanimous, decision the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed hospitals' and health systems' hopes of recouping millions in Medicare underpayments made between 1987 and 1994.
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Hall of Famer Pat Groner dies at 91 | GPO founder remembered as an innovator

By Ashok Selvam | December 17, 2012 | Basic Web

Pat Groner, a co-founder of the group purchasing organization Voluntary Hospitals of America and the original CEO of a company that would become four-hospital Baptist Health Care Corp., Pensacola, Fla., died Friday of complications from Alzheimer's disease.
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Scottsdale-Sovereign venture takes ownership of surgical center

By Paul Barr | October 03, 2012

A joint venture between three-hospital Scottsdale (Ariz.) Healthcare system and surgical center operator Sovereign Healthcare, Mission Viejo, Calif., closed on a deal to acquire majority ownership of the outpatient Biltmore Surgical Center, Phoenix, for undisclosed terms.
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New hospital battle ground: Lake County, Ill.

By Claire Bushey, Crain's Chicago Business | September 27, 2012

Waukegan, Ill.-based Vista Health System is reviving its plan for a new, $131 million hospital in nearby Lindenhurst, setting the stage for another bruising battle over a major healthcare construction project.
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