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Partnership venture with Emerus will yield three more new Las Vegas "neighborhood" hospitals this year.
Rural populations suffer from numerous health disparities and poorer outcomes than those in urban settings, putting pressure on hospitals.
Hartford campus where company was founded in 19th Century will remain but its long-term commitment there depends on Connecticut's economic health.
Market forces driving negative trends include consumerism, denials and complex contracts, documentation demands and bad integrations, Advisory Board says.
Minuteman Insurance Company will begin writing business as of January 1, 2018.
Shortage of 20 to 30,000 physicians by 2025 possible; Nurse practitioner trainees now represent 19 percent of all medical trainees, expert says.
Recovery effort came with a price tag of roughly $118 per claim, or as much as $8.6 billion in appeals-related administrative costs, Change Healthcare said.
Patient outcomes are the marker of a system's quality, and that quality is often reflected in the costs.
Notorious hacker has been playing a game called "A Business a Day," by publicly making extortion attempts on businesses.
From 2015 to 2016, death rate for all of its hospitals dropped from 15 to 12 percent for severe sepsis/shock, 12 to 9 percent for all sepsis cases.