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The Fortune 500 company operates health plans in 11 states and Puerto Rico.
Though new transparency rules worried dialysis providers and prevention efforts are increasing, DaVita HealthCare Partners says the demand for the kidney-care services is still driving business forward.
The 77,000-square-foot building will be housed at the North Central Baptist Hospital and act as its hub for treatments including joint replacement, rehabilitating sports injuries, arthroscopic surgery and spine treatment.
The good news is labor relations within the healthcare industry seem stable for the most part, though contentious issues such as patient safety still exist and have threatened to disrupt operations at some health centers in the United States.
With a progressive CEO and culture and a huge merger in the works, Aetna is promising to help reinvent healthcare. Yet it is still up against the long-term unknowns about what will constitute truly sustainable healthcare.
Among taxpayers who claimed a subsidy, about 1.6 million, or half of taxpayers who claimed or received a subsidy, had to pay money back to the government because their actual income was higher than projected when they applied for the subsidy.
Beginning in 2018, companies that offer health insurance packages the government deems too generous will start having to pay a 40 percent tax on those packages. Despite the "Cadillac" tax, Towers Watson, a consulting firm, predicts that 48 percent of employers will have to pay the tax in its first year.
Over 140 Medicare-certified hospices have been invited to participate in a new five-year model of care that will allow for dual coverage of hospice and curative care.
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is No. 1 in cancer care; the Cleveland Clinic is No. 1 in cardiology and heart surgery and the Hospital for Special Surgery is No. 1 in orthopedics.
Even though most people now take some steps to communicate their end-of-life wishes, many may still receive more intensive care than they would have wished.