Jeff Lagasse
The companies will also build a new managed services organization called True Health New Mexico.
New research suggests that public health insurance may increase cancer diagnoses, which can lead to fewer cancer deaths and lower treatment costs.
Some providers make a policy of referring anyone without insurance to public hospitals, creating duplicate visits and diagnostic testing that strains those already struggling institutions.
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights called for increased monitoring of psychiatric hospitals to ensure patient safety.
The organizations will see their Medicare reimbursement rates dip by 1 percent in the coming year.
The troubles aren't over, however, with probes by the Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission still ongoing.
The health system will modernize existing facilities, expand others, build a new urgent care center and purchase medical equipment.
The transaction, expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2018, happened at the end of a year packed with mergers and acquisitions activity.
More than 20 states enacted laws in 2017 to equip nurses with full practice authority.
A lot of the money spent in the six months after a heart attack don't seem to be making much of a difference.