San Diego-based Scripps Health’s clinic and coastal medical groups will stop participating in Medicare Advantage plans, effective Jan. 1, a move that will affect about 32,000 seniors enrolled in plans from UnitedHealthcare, Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shie…
West Orange, N.J.-based RWJBarnabas Health has appointed two new executive leaders to its management team.
Compared to COOs and CFOs, the pathway from pharmacy leader to a hospital C-suite is less established. Here’s how three hospital C-suite executives with pharmacy backgrounds rose through the ranks.
Four individuals in South Florida have been sentenced to prison for their role in a coordinated scheme to sell more than 7,600 fraudulent diplomas and transcripts to aspiring nurses, which enabled them to sit for the National Council Licensure Examinat…
An Ohio woman, who falsely represented herself as a physician, and her physician husband were sentenced for a healthcare scheme which led some patients to believe they had cognitive diseases.
The American Hospital Association is asking Congress to urge HHS to “immediately” rescind a rule restricting the use of third-party tracking technologies by hospitals and health systems.
Biotech company Biogen is shutting down its 150-person digital health unit that was focused on gathering health data from mobile devices, The Boston Globe reported Sept. 28.
Yale (Conn.) New Haven Health signed a deal in November to acquire three hospitals owned by Prospect Medical. The slow regulatory approval process and a recent cyberattack that disrupted the hospitals’ IT systems have Yale concerned about the viability…
King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services, one of the largest for-profit health systems in the country, is able to maintain a higher credit rating over many of its peers because of low leverage and a strong operating position, Fitch said Sep…
Healthcare CFOs’ tenures last an average of 4.7 years, according to a recent report from Crist Kolder Associates. Mike Buongiorno served as the CFO of Radnor, Pa.-based Main Line Health for more than five times that average.
