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The first quarter of 2016 saw $1.4 billion in venture capital funding and the most merger and acquisitions transactions in a single quarter to date, according to Mercom Capital Group.
MultiCare Health System in Tacoma, Washington and Salt Lake City-based data analytics company Health Catalyst joined forces in a shared-risk contract aiming to save $25 million a year while also improving clinical outcomes.
Laboratory's receipt of Medicare payments also in question.
Physician and pain clinic owner Paramjit Singh Ajrawat, 60, of Potomac, Maryland, has been ordered to repay $3.1 million from a healthcare fraud scheme in which he filed fake insurance claims, according to the U.S. District Attorney's Office in Maryland.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center employees plan to walk off their jobs on Thursday to protest the hospital's alleged harassing of workers who want to form a union and to call for an immediate hike of the system's minimum wage to $15 an hour, according to the Service Employees International Union.
Staff learned in a company-wide letter that they would not be paid until this Friday.
Despite the drive towards value-based payment models, physicians are bringing in $1.56 million each in inpatient and outpatient fee-for-service revenue to hospitals, according to a survey by AMN Healthcare subsidiary Merritt-Hawkins, a slight increase of $112,230 over 2013.
A collaboration between scientists, clinicians and industry partners, the institute will spearhead efforts in cancer immunotherapy research -- benefitting from what amounts to the largest single contribution ever made to the field.
He spoke to our sister site Healthcare IT News about the program, the people who make Geisinger work, the evolution of population health and the promise of what he calls "anticipatory medicine."
Marketplace premiums rose by 8 percent last year, well below the double-digit rise predicted by some observers of Obamacare, according to a Department of Health and Human Services report released Tuesday.