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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services told Florida officials it could not extend the state's current managed care waiver for Medicaid to a statewide program. The pilot program, granted a waiver to run in five counties in 2006, has been the model for recent efforts by the state to reform its Medicaid program.
Community Health Systems Inc. has raised its offer for a takeover of Tenet Healthcare Corp. by 20 percent in what is its final attempt to close a deal between the two rival hospital operators.
Leaders of the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care have said they are alarmed over aspects of the Medicare skilled nursing facility (SNF) payment rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services last Thursday.
The strength of the national healthcare labor market showed improvement across a number of major metropolitan areas in the first quarter of 2011, as measured by the HWS Labor Market Pulse Index, a quarterly barometer of local market healthcare workforce fluctuations.
Community Hospital Long Beach has joined MemorialCare Health System as its sixth hospital facility in Los Angeles and Orange counties and third hospital in Long Beach.
Community Health Systems, locked in a bitter hostile takeover bid for rival Tenet Healthcare, publicly defended itself Thursday, calling Tenet's allegations of improper patient admission practices "contrived and biased."
The Department of Health and Human Services has launched a new initiative that will reward hospitals for the quality of care they provide to Medicare beneficiaries. HHS officials said the program would also help reduce healthcare costs.
API Healthcare, a healthcare-specific workforce management technology company based in Wisconsin, and Kronos, a global workforce management solutions company based in Massachusetts, are terminating their previously announced merger agreement.
More registered nurses working non-overtime hours in a hospital unit results in fewer patient readmissions after discharge, according to a study published in the current issue of Health Services Research.
CVS Caremark expects to complete its $1.25 billion acquisition of the Medicare Part D business of Universal American on Friday - a deal that would more than double CVS Caremark's Part D business.