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Kindred Healthcare continues expanding its footprint in the home healthcare sector with the acquisition of Professional HealthCare, a portfolio company of Mainsail Partners. The definitive agreement signed by the two companies will transfer Professional's 27 home healthcare locations to Kindred for $51 million in cash.
The National Labor Relations Board ordered a new union election for 43,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers in California after discounting the results of a previous election mired in accusations of misconduct.
Touting it as the first of its kind ACO in Northern California, Anthem Blue Cross and the Individual Practice Association Medical Group of Santa Clara County (SCCIPA) have announced a contract to provide accountable care to tens of thousands of Anthem PPO members in the Silicon Valley.
Professionals at healthcare organizations across the country expect costs to rise with healthcare reform but those costs will be tempered by increased access to care and organizational efficiencies.
Patient satisfaction with hospital emergency departments is strongest in Miami, Hartford, Conn., and Indianapolis found healthcare consulting firm Press Ganey Associates in its annual ED patient satisfaction survey.
Citing an anticipated infusion of $17 million from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services aimed at helping rural hospitals, the Service Employees International Union has called on Baystate Health to back off plans to eliminate 354 jobs.
A Los Angeles-based IT entrepreneur wants to pare down the expensive EMR to its simplest charting functions, add a few solutions and offer it to non-profits looking to provide healthcare to disadvantaged populations around the world.
Primary care doctors are continuing to ramp up the pressure on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services over how Medicare's physician payment rates are set. The latest volley is a suit filed by a group of primary care physicians from Georgia claiming CMS and HHS are violating federal laws by relying on the RUC.
CT scans in the emergency room have gone up dramatically in recent years. A new study links the increase in CT scans to fewer hospital admissions.
Healthcare reform means moving from a provider-centric to a patient-centric model of care, said Jamie Orlikoff, president of the Chicago-based consulting firm Orlikoff & Associates, to an audience at the Association for Healthcare Resource & Materials Management (AHRMM) conference in Boston on Tuesday.