Blount County, Tenn., Mayor Ed Mitchell will ask the Blount County Board of Commissioners to transfer operations ownership of Blount County Memorial Hospital to Knoxville-based University of Tennessee Medical Center, The Daily Times reported Feb. 15.
GV (formerly Google Ventures), the venture capital arm of Alphabet, co-led the $6 million seed funding round to help launch Thatch, a digital benefits management platform.
Hospitals, health systems, physician practices and healthcare organizations are experiencing increasingly complex revenue cycles, working with government and private payers as well as patients to collect.
Tennessee has the most active nurse practitioners of any state per capita, while Hawaii has the fewest, according to a ranking from Kaiser Family Foundation.
Fourteem hospitals or health systems recently posted job listings seeking marketing expertise.
Jefferson Health CEO Joseph Cacchione, MD, has named John Mordach executive vice president and CFO of the 18-hospital, Philadelphia-based system, which includes Thomas Jefferson University and Health Partners Plans.
Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health plans to go from seven networks of care to five systemwide to reduce costs and strengthen operations, according to a Feb. 15 news release shared with Becker’s.
A former office manager of a Newark, N.J.-based medical practice admitted to conspiring with a physician to distribute prescription amphetamine to patients, the Justice Department said Feb. 15.
CMS updated its voluntary self-referral disclosure laws Jan. 23, according to law firm Nexsen Pruet in a Feb. 15 article on JDSupra.
Here are three updates from Dallas-based United Surgical Partners International Becker’s has reported on since Jan. 30:
