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Ascend Vision Partners to team up with Central Florida Eye Care

Ascend Vision Partners is partnering with Central Florida Eye Care in Winterhaven to provide management services for the practice. 

Shuttered Connecticut nursing program faces lawsuit from 8 former students

Eight students from a now-shuttered nursing program at Stone Academy in West Haven, Conn., filed a class action lawsuit May 3 against the institution claiming it violated the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act by misrepresenting the institutions’ s…

Surgeon salaries in the most affordable places to live in 2023, 2024

Hickory, N.C., has been named the most affordable place to live in 2023 and 2024 by U.S. News & World Report, based on metrics including median gross rent and annual housing costs. 

Staffing budgets swell as contract labor costs level off: Report

Tight hospital margins and chronic staffing troubles have led many healthcare organizations to reevaluate their hiring strategies, as evidenced by a May 23 Kaufman Hall report. 

Cleveland Clinic reports operating income up $136.8M in Q1

Cleveland Clinic reported improved net operating income of $32.3 million for the three months ending March 31 on revenues of $3.5 billion.

Medicare payers vow to keep covering remote patient monitoring

Private insurance companies that contract for Medicare will continue to pay for remote patient monitoring, Politico reported May 23.

Amazon's PillPack suffers data breach & 4 more updates

Amazon’s PillPack is notifying consumers that an unauthorized person took customer emails and passwords to log into 19,032 PillPack accounts.

10 largest ASC companies by number of operating rooms

Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Healthcare has the largest total number of operating rooms across its ASCs, with 720, according to 2022 data from healthcare data company Definitive Healthcare.

Cleveland Clinic offers employees free food and a weight loss strategy

Employees at Cleveland Clinic are enjoying a new benefit now that the hospital has partnered with NestlĂ© USA to provide employees with free frozen meals via Instacart to encourage them to stay on course with an employer health plan-sponsored weight man…

The top 5 medical services Americans are skipping

Financial uncertainty and the high cost of medical expenses have caused many people to forgo medical treatment, a Federal Reserve report released in May found.