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Six states -- Illinois, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee and Washington -- will receive $181 million in grants from the U.S. Health and Human Services Department to help them establish health insurance exchanges.
The states of Illinois, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee and Washington will receive $181 million in grants from the Health and Human Services Department to help them establish health insurance exchanges.
Conifer Health Solutions, a subsidiary of Tenet Healthcare Corp., announced yesterday a 10-year revenue cycle management deal for 56 Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) hospitals that will also see CHI acquire a minority stake in Conifer.
According to research that was presented last week at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2012, the differences in regional readmission rates for heart failure are more closely connected with the availability of care and socioeconomics rather than with hospital performance or a patient's degree of illness.
There are market forces keeping the healthcare mergers and acquisitions market active but not frenetic, according to analysts at a panel called "Financing The Deal" at the Nashville Health Care Council on May 15.
Leading financial analysts scoffed at the notion of a healthcare IT "bubble" that could slow the pace of mergers and acquisitions this year. Speaking on a panel called "Financing The Deal" at the Nashville Health Care Council, they predicted that 2012 M&A activity would be brisk, though not superheated.
The Obama administration released the country's first national plan to address Alzheimer's disease on Tuesday. Calling it a roadmap, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the new national plan "addresses every aspect of what it is to confront Alzheimer's disease."
The American Medical Association (AMA) launched a free Web-based educational course this week to help physicians address the driving safety of their older patients.
Moody's expects an increasing number of healthcare companies to initiate dividend payments to shareholders as investors place higher value on immediate, stable income amid today's low interest rate environment, according to the new special comment "Peer Pressure Will Drive More Healthcare Companies to Pay Dividends."
According to a new report released by the Hospital Association of Rhode Island (HARI), Rhode Island hospitals contributed more than $6.3 billion to the state's economy in 2010.