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Facing a $170 million budget shortfall, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy and other lawmakers are floating a raft of ideas to save money, including an increase in the state hospital tax, Medicaid funding cuts, limits on hospital tax credits and a new way for municipalities to tax hospital property.

Healthcare deals totaled $104.7 billion in the first quarter, up 109 percent compared to the first quarter of 2014, according to preliminary estimates by Connecticut-based Irving Levin Associates.

Prime claimed SEIU and Healthcare Workers of the West were guilty of extortion and other illegal methods in their attempts to unionize hospital employees and challenge the company’s $843 million acquisition of the Daughters of Charity Health System in California.

Doctors overstated the amount of time the nurse anesthetists spent with patients, pocketing about 9 percent of the reimbursement.

Healthgrades list based on CMS data on patients who stayed at these hospitals between 2011 and 2013.

Healthgrades list based on surveys from patients who stayed at these hospitals in 2013.

Nearly 1,000 hospitals were named either top hospitals for patient experience or patient safety on Tuesday by Denver-based healthcare ratings company Healthgrades.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service said the final revenue increase was driven by a spike in Medicare fee-for-service spending per capita estimates.

Hospitals see the proverbial writing on the wall, and are preparing for the industry transition to value-based purchasing. But under a value model, many organizations will struggle, at least initially, to maintain their margins and to retain adequate market share in their regions.

A 2008 federal law was supposed to ensure that when patients had insurance benefits for mental health and addiction treatment, the coverage was on par with what they received for medical and surgical care. But until now, the government had only spelled out how the law applied to commercial plans.