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The value in price transparency | It's time for hospitals to look inward for reasons behind cost disparity
By Merrill Goozner | May 11, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
The controversy surrounding hospital pricing resurfaced last week after the CMS released hospital charges and payments for the top 100 diagnosis-related groups.
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FDA inspection triggers recall by Florida pharmacy
By Matthew Perrone / Associated Press | May 09, 2013
The Food and Drug Administration warned doctors and pharmacists Wednesday to avoid drugs made by a Florida specialty pharmacy called The Compounding Shop, because of potential safety problems uncovered by health inspectors.
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HMA, Florida Blue plan to launch ACO
By Rachel Landen | May 02, 2013
Health Management Associates, Naples, Fla., and Florida Blue, Florida's Blue Cross and Blue Shield company, will form an accountable care organization to serve patients in Brevard County, Fla.
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'Child-friendly, not childish' | Nemours facility in Orlando has academic mission
By Andis Robeznieks | April 27, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
You might occasionally see superheroes washing windows or Star Wars characters roaming the halls at the new Nemours Children's Hospital in Orlando, Fla.
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Regional News/South: Catholic Health Initiatives buys six hospital health system in Houston, and other news
By Modern Healthcare | April 27, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
HOUSTON—Catholic Health Initiatives will acquire six-hospital St. Luke's Episcopal Health System in Houston, pending regulatory approvals. The Texas Episcopal Diocese approved the definitive agreement, which includes a $1 billion investment from Englewood, Colo.-based CHI. CHI will...
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Late News: Doctor boost | Immigration bill could raise healthcare workforce
By Rich Daly and Jessica Zigmond | April 20, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
A bipartisan Senate immigration bill could boost the nation's healthcare workforce in addition to expanding coverage to millions of newly legal residents.
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News
HMA outbids Duke LifePoint in quest to acquire Fla. facility
By Beth Kutscher | April 19, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Health Management Associates, Naples, Fla., beat out Duke LifePoint in its bid to acquire Munroe Regional Medical Center, Ocala, Fla.
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Fla. health data theft case prompts lawsuit
By Data Breach Today | April 18, 2013
Adventist Health System faces a class action lawsuit seeking damages for failure to safeguard the HIPAA-protected information of 763,000 patients at several of its hospitals in Florida.
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State reform update: Ark. Medicaid alternative in spotlight as other states mull similar plans
By Rich Daly | April 17, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Arkansas lawmakers gave final approval to the governor's plan to use new federal Medicaid funding to buy private coverage in insurance exchanges. Now it's likely to draw intense federal scrutiny.
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Fla. House rolls out health insurance plan
By Associated Press | April 12, 2013
Gov. Rick Scott slammed a Florida House proposal Thursday that would pass up billions of federal dollars to provide healthcare coverage to 115,000 uninsured Floridians.
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