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The Iowa Health System, a seven-hospital system based in Des Moines, is considering a strategic partnership with Methodist Health Services of Peoria, Ill.
Humana Cares recently launched a pilot project aimed at better care for members with congestive heart failure.
Universal Hospital Services, a provider of medical equipment management and service solutions, has completed its acquisition of the Emergent Group and its wholly owned subsidiary, PRI Medical Technologies, a provider of mobile medical lasers and surgical equipment.
As the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act celebrates its one-year anniversary, a controversial medical devices tax included in the law hasn't been forgotten by those most likely to be affected by it.
MedAssets, based in Atlanta, has announced that The Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha will deploy the company's strategic sourcing and group purchasing, medical device and clinical consulting services for physician preference items, as well as the company's pharmacy consulting services.
The Arizona House approved a measure to restore Medicaid funding for organ transplants and the state Senate was expected to also approve the measure. Governor Jan Brewer took heavy criticism for cutting the money from the sate budget late last year, as the state grappled with a crushing budget deficit.
Palmetto Physician Connections, a new government-sponsored health plan, is launching a medical home care model as it looks to build its managed care business with South Carolina's Healthy Connections Choices Medicaid program.
Merger and acquisition activity in the health care industry's service sectors burgeoned in 2010 as the impact of the credit crunch and Great Recession on the economy began to fade says the seventeenth edition of Irving Levin Associates' "The Health Care Services Acquisition Report."
The House Energy and Commerce Committee is seeking feedback from 51 medical associations on how to fix the Sustainable Growth Rate - the formula used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to control Medicare payments to physicians.
The new proposed regulations on accountable care organizations, released Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services, launch one of the first delivery-reform initiatives to be implemented under the Accountable Care Act.