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The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and the Parkinson's Action Network have announced plans to integrate. MJFF made the announcement in a statement, saying that PAN will cease to operate as an independent organization, and will merge into the Foundation.

UPMC, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, will increase minimum starting salaries for entry-level positions to $15 an hour by January 2021, according to UPMC.com.

The healthcare system in the United States is spending billions per year unnecessarily by continuing to use manual administrative processes for basic transactions, according to the 2015 CAQH Index released Wednesday.

MedStar Health was forced to turn some patients away on Tuesday as it recovered from a computer virus.

Caleb Anderson said that one potential option is to have a vendor run the patient call center, submit claims, handle denials and more.

MedStar said in a statement that the virus prevented some employees from logging into system but that all of its clinics remain open and functioning.

Henry Ford Health System has licensed hundreds of its hospital food recipes in India's New Dehli National Capital Region, the system announced late last week. The NCR is the country's largest urban center, and the move is part a larger health and wellness effort.

EmblemHealth and Northwell Health in New York have agreed to share risk in value-based contracts, EmblemHealth announced March 25.

National health services organization IASIS Healthcare, the Phoenix Suns basketball team, and Phoenix Mercury have joined forces to open a multi-specialty clinic the organizations tout as the first of its kind in the country.

The era of value-based reimbursement is making patient satisfaction a costly thing to ignore, and that goes for the operating room right down to the hospital cafeteria.