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After almost two decades under the leadership of current president and CEO Dan Wolterman, Memorial Hermann Health System in Texas has named Benjamin K. Chu, MD, as his successor, the system announced Tuesday.

Retail clinics, long seen as an antidote to more expensive doctor offices and emergency rooms, may actually boost medical spending by leading consumers to get more care, a new study shows.

If a physicians' group, hospital or revenue cycle management company can prove that its paper-based billing method is faster and less expensive than a paperless alternative, Tom Furr has a $10,000 check with their name on it. That's the premise behind the "$10,000 Healthcare Billing Challenge" being held by PatientPay, of which Furr is CEO.

Community Health Systems net operating revenue for 2015 jumped by more than 4 percent to $19.4 billion, an $800,000 million increase over the same period in 2014 when that year's net operating revenue totaled $18.6 billion, according to CHS's financial statement released on Feb. 15.

Alan S. Kaplan, MD, the current executive vice president and chief clinical transformation officer for UnityPoint Health in West Des Moines, Iowa, has been appointed CEO of the UW Health system, UW Health announced Tuesday.

DignityHealth next month will break ground on one of four small hospitals in Las Vegas, part of a plan to bring more care to underserved neighborhoods of the famous desert city.

GoHealth Urgent Care and Dignity Health, one of the country's largest health systems, announced a new joint venture Tuesday that the companies say will provide greater access to "convenient care".

Nueterra, a privately held company formerly specializing in developing equity partnerships and healthcare facilities, has split into a pair of new companies -- NueHealth and Nueterra Capital.

For six months now, Ivinson Memorial Hospital in Wyoming has puttered along without a chief financial officer. Now that's changed, with longtime hospital pro Jim Bands selected to help steer the facility into the future.

As part of the development of four new operating rooms, the University of Michigan Health System announced Monday that it will become one of the first hospitals in the country to integrate new neurosurgical imaging equipment called BrightMatter.