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Post-acute care provider Genesis HealthCare announced Wednesday it has signed an agreement to sell the majority of its home health and hospice operations to Compassus, a nationwide network of community-based hospice and palliative care programs, for $84 million.
Across the country, more than 50 rural hospitals have closed over the last six years, and another 283 are in fragile financial condition, according to the National Rural Health Association.
Rising prices and big-dollar medications are leading to increases in prescription drug spending, the Department of Health and Human Services has found.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Wednesday released data on 15,055 skilled nursing facilities, over 2.5 million stays, and almost $27 billion in Medicare payments for 2013.
Two states are making inroads into revealing some of the biggest secrets of health care by publishing price information to help consumers comparison shop for doctors, dentists and prescription drugs.
Physician and pharmaceutical groups have come out swinging against the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' proposal to reduce the reimbursement price for Medicare Part B prescription drugs.
Large hospitals are more likely to have a contract with an accountable care organization, and those participating in ACOs were more likely to be in heavily-populated urban areas, new findings from the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice revealed.
After almost two decades under the leadership of current president and CEO Dan Wolterman, Memorial Hermann Health System in Texas has named Benjamin K. Chu, MD, as his successor, the system announced Tuesday.
The healthcare sector represented the largest share of initial public offerings by deal count in 2015, says a report released Tuesday by Proskauer's Capital Markets Group.
The current Medicare Part B drug payment methodology can penalize doctors for selecting lower-cost drugs.