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Standard & Poor's Ratings Services revised its rating outlook to positive from stable on debt issued for UMass Memorial Medical Center, part of UMass Memorial Health Care in Worcester, Mass.

Hospital outpatient surgical visits increased 4.5 percent in 2009 compared with 2008, according to SDI, a healthcare market insight and analytics firm.

Philadelphia-based Independence Blue Cross announced Friday that it is investing $47 million to launch a new primary care physician payment program.

National health expenditures grew in 2008 at the slowest pace in nearly 50 years yet still outpaced economic growth at large, according to a new report from the California HealthCare Foundation.

The Hudson Health Plan, a Medicaid managed care organization based in New York, will implement an integrated care management software system offered by TCS Healthcare Technologies.

AstraZeneca will pay $520 million to resolve allegations that it marketed the anti-psychotic drug Seroquel for uses not approved as safe and effective by the Food and Drug Administration.

Leaders of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) have announced that health plans will end the practice of rescinding coverege before they're required to do so by federal healthcare reform legislation.

The Premier healthcare alliance has launched an $86 million "major new strategic plan" that will help hospitals leverage informatics to meet healthcare reform measures.

More than 43 percent of primary care providers received some form of additional compensation for on-call coverage, according to the Medical Group Management Association.

Health Net of California has been selected by the Fresno-Kings-Madera Regional Health Authority to administer CalViva Health, the local initiative Medi-Cal plan.