Category: Modern Healthcare

The Class A properties, which include post-acute facilities and specialty hospitals, are 94% full and boast average rent increases of 2.4% a year.

Cigna Corp. and Tenet Healthcare Corp. have reached a multiyear contract keeping the health system in-network after nearly a year of negotiations and public disagreement.

After months of political drama between Kaiser Permanente and a controversial workers’ union, the National Labor Relations Board will weigh in on a negotiations dispute in March.

Advocate Aurora Health wants to be 100% reliant on renewable electricity to power its 27 hospitals and more than 500 outpatient facilities by 2030.

The new release adds stability to several parts of the standard, giving developers confidence to make data-sharing tools using FHIR.

A Connecticut task force has recommended against creating special state courts to serve people addicted to opioids, citing successful drug treatment programs already in place and the high cost of establishing such new courts.

Sanford, which has 45 hospitals, adds Good Samaritan and its 200-plus post-acute, skilled-nursing, hospice, assisted-living, rehabilitation and home-health facilities and an insurance plan to its network.

OhioHealth’s deal with ChenMed to open three senior primary-care clinics is the first known partnership between a health system and a for-profit primary-care provider company.

A judge ruled that Kansas cannot stop telemedicine abortions, thwarting the latest attempt by state lawmakers to prevent doctors from providing pregnancy-ending pills to women they see by remote video conferences.

The federal judge in Texas who struck down the individual mandate — and Obamacare with it — finalized his decision and paved the way for an appeal. He agreed the law should remain in place as the case wends through the courts.