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CHS to acquire 10 urgent care centers in Arizona
Community Health Systems’ subsidiary Northwest Urgent Care will acquire 10 Arizona urgent care centers from Carbon Health.
Northwest Urgent Care in Tucson, Arizona, is part of Northwest Healthcare’s integrated healthcare network serving Tucson and surr…
Steward CEO faces criminal contempt resolution by Senate committee
The Senate Help, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee is scheduled to meet in an executive session on Thursday at 10 a.m., on a Contempt Resolution against Steward Health CEO Dr. Ralph de la Torre.
Walgreens to pay $106.8 million to settle prescription billing claims
Walgreens has agreed to pay $106.8 million to resolve allegations that it billed the government for prescriptions never dispensed, according to the Department of Justice.
HIMSSCast: How care collaboration impacts patients and providers
Emergency room physicians are familiar with patients who frequently return to their hospitals for care.
But ER physicians have little time to assess how many times that person has visited other ERs within the health system and no way to know if the pat…
AHA: Hospitals improve patient safety measures above pre-pandemic levels
The American Hospital Association has released a report finding that hospital and health system performance on key patient sa
Hospitals sue HHS over disproportionate share hospital payment
Eighty hospitals have sued the Department of Health and Human Services over disproportionate share hospital payments that include calculations for Medicare Advantage.
PBM executives face penalties if their testimony goes uncorrected
The heads of three large pharmacy benefit managers have until tomorrow to respond to a House Committee or face perjury charges that could result in fines or even prison time, according to the letters sent by House Committee on Oversight and Accountabil…
CMS notifies close to 1 million individuals of cyber breach
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation are mailing written notifications to 946,801 people whose protected health information or other personally identifiable information may have been comp…
Risant Health to invest $1 billion in Cone Health
Risant Health will make available a minimum of $1 billion in capital to Cone Health over the next five years to support investments in facilities, health equity and other capital projects, according to a financial filing by Kaiser Permanente.
Risant Health to invest $1 billion in Cone Health
Risant Health will make available a minimum of $1 billion in capital to Cone Health over the next five years to support investments in facilities, health equity and other capital projects, according to a financial filing by Kaiser Permanente.
