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When looking back at the the biggest news in healthcare in 2015, an informal survey of Healthcare Finance readers found no other contender even came close to defeating ICD-10 for the reign of top issue of the year.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona and Tenet Healthcare have come to a four-year deal that allows Carondelet Health Network and Abrazo Community Health Network to remain part of the local network in 2016, according to the local Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona.
When Northwell Health officially replaced the former North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System brand name on January 1, officials got an extra marketing boost when the first baby born in New York on New Year's Day was delivered at a Northwell hospital.
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The state of Maryland is proposing significant changes to how its Medicaid system doles out cash to methadone treatment clinics. And some operators of such facilities aren't happy about it.
Hospitals in Pennsylvania have saved close to $700 million in last few years by cutting down on readmission rates and preventing unnecessary hospitalizations, according to the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.
UnitedHealth Group subsidiary Optum will buy the administrative support services for ProHealth Physicians, one of Connecticut's largest independent physician groups.
Two professional organizations representing emergency doctors warn that a new federal rule could lead to higher out-of-pocket costs for consumers when they need emergency care outside their health plan's network of providers. But consumer advocates and health policy experts say the groups' proposed solution doesn't adequately protect consumers.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, one of the pioneers in building its own software systems, announced it would switch to an Epic electronic health record in November 2017, having weighed the merits of both Epic and Cerner, the hospital announced on Friday.
Thursday's announcement by Kaiser Permanente that it plans to open its own medical school in Southern California has attracted a lot of attention in the healthcare community.