Category: ROOT

82% of employers say healthcare affordability impacts workforce retention

Rising healthcare costs impact employer efforts to attract and retain talent, with 73 percent of employers saying healthcare costs crowd out salary and wage increases and 82 percent saying it impacts their ability to remain competitive, according to a …

10 hospitals planning upgrades, expansions

The following 10 hospitals and health systems have announced upgrades or expansions since Oct. 26:

CVS to drop services provider Omnicare

CVS Health is “actively exploring strategic alternatives for Omnicare” after the services provider lost $2.5 billion in CVS’ third quarter, according to a Nov. 2 earnings call. 

20 states with the most primary care physicians

There are 497,348 professionally active primary care physicians in the U.S. According to the most recent data from the Kaiser Family Foundation, California tops the list with more than 55,000 primary physicians in the state.

Northside Hospital may expand suburban Atlanta location

Northside Gwinnett Hospital, just 30 miles from downtown Atlanta, has filed for a 480-bed expansion with the planned building of a new tower, according to a Bisnow report. The move comes as Atlanta experiences the consequences of Wellstar Medical Cente…

Ensemble tapped for Valley Health System RCM partnership

Winchester, Va.-based Valley Health System has selected Ensemble Health Partners to optimize its revenue cycle operations. 

October’s most expensive new ASCs add up to $590M

Here are the three most expensive ASCs in October:

Jefferson Health receives $50M donation, names new facility

Philadelphia-based Jefferson Health received a $50 million gift from Lynne and Harold Honickman and their family to support the ongoing construction of its new 19-story medical building in downtown Philadelphia.

CMS finalizes 4.5% physician pay cut

Medicare’s physician fee schedule final rule, released Nov. 1, will reduce the physician pay conversion factor by 4.48 percent to $33.06. 

Private equity in ophthalmology: 5 updates

Private equity in ophthalmology has continued to develop this year, with five new updates from Becker’s.