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Northwell Health, New York State's largest healthcare provider and private employer, and DaVita Kidney Care have announced a joint venture that will expand healthcare service to thousands in Queens and Long Island.
Cigna has teamed up with Integrated Independent Physicians Network in Florida for an accountable care organization model that rewards doctors for having a healthier population and saving money.
Jeffrey Carr, most recently the entrepreneur-in-residence at a startup incubator, has joined Mercy Health as the health system's first chief innovation officer, the health system announced Tuesday.
The problems were traced to the compounding pharmacy lab at Paradise Valley Hospital in National City, California, where inspectors found "dust, stains and foreign material" in a supposedly sterile environment in which thousands of intravenous medications were prepared over eight months -- from Jan. 1 to Aug. 18.
St. David's HealthCare, a major provider in Central Texas, will invest more than $275 million in the region's healthcare infrastructure, the system has announced.
Valeant Pharmaceuticals on Monday said it will offer hospitals deeper discounts for the heart drugs Nitropress and Isuprel, with hospitals now eligible for rebates between 10 and 40 percent based on the volume of the drugs purchased over the course of one quarter.
As hospitals and health systems invest heavily in patient engagement initiatives to deliver a better clinical experience -- and in many cases, to drive revenue -- sometimes just changing how medical professionals interact with patients can have the biggest impact.
Despite an overall drop in doctor's visits, emergency visits and hospital care, children's healthcare spending rose in 2014, according to a new report by the Health Care Cost Institute that claims rising prices bridged the gap in utilization.
Congress and the VA came up with a fix: Veterans Choice, a $10 billion program. Veterans received a card that was supposed to allow them to see a non-VA doctor if they were either more than 40 miles away from a VA facility or they were going to have to wait longer than 30 days for a VA provider to see them. It sounds like a simple idea but it's not working.
Following the completion of its spin-off from Community Health Systems, Quorum Health Corp. on Friday reported a net loss of $5 million in the first quarter of 2016, which ended March 31, the company announced this week.