Category: Modern Healthcare

As the number of ambulatory surgery centers continues to grow around the nation, HHS wants to create a new patient safety database to track quality of care at the facilities.

Humana and private equity firms TPG Capital and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe have closed on their acquisitions of Curo Health Services and Kindred Healthcare.

Grand Rapids-based Spectrum Health, one of Michigan’s largest nonprofit health systems, and Lakeland Health, a three-hospital system based in St. Joseph, have signed a letter of intent and expect to merge by Oct. 1, officials said Wednesday.

While new hospital construction has slowed, there has been a surge in the development of dialysis centers. Dialysis has become a major growth field as diabetes and other kidney diseases have exploded.

Private equity’s interest in healthcare has exploded in recent years. But a new report shows firms are increasingly challenged by companies’ high prices.

The House HHS appropriations committee passed amendments to its $177 billion health funding bill to soften and chip away at the Trump administration’s rescinded family separation policy and the continued fallout.

Bright Health joins Oscar Health in expanding into new markets, signaling the startup’s bullish view of the increasingly expensive Obamacare exchanges.

While interest in revenue growth remains high, cost structure and management were health executives’ top concerns last year, according to Advisory Board’s national survey.

The CMS has released an annual funding notice for navigators for the federal exchange. Applicants will compete for just $10 million in funding, down from $36 million last year. They will also be expected to promote not just qualified health plans…

The CMS on Tuesday announced it would drop a Medicaid rule that since 2014 has allowed unions to have dues paid through checks sent to state-subsidized home healthcare workers.