Sacramento, Calif.-based Sutter Health has reached an agreement to settle a class-action lawsuit that alleged the health system used its market power to charge supracompetitive rates to major insurers, which resulted in higher premiums for members.&nbs…
The U.S. lost more than 500 pediatric units between 2008 and 2022, resulting in a 29.9% decline in these units and a 19.5% decrease in hospital pediatric beds. Bucking this trend, Hutchinson (Kan.) Regional Medical Center reopened its pediatric unit ye…
Renton, Wash.-based Providence has launched the first phase of its joint venture with Compassus, a Brentwood, Tenn.-based provider with more than 7,000 employees and hundreds of locations across 32 states, to transition home-based care services t…
Johnson & Johnson MedTech issued a recall for its Biosense Webster Varipulse Bi-Directional Ablation Catheter following reports of strokes and transient ischemic attacks in patients undergoing procedures with the device.
New York City-based NYU Langone Health has completed its merger with Patchogue, N.Y.-based Long Island Community Hospital, which will now be known as NYU Langone Hospital—Suffolk.
Boston Scientific has reached an agreement to acquire SoniVie, a medical device company developing the TIVUS Intravascular Ultrasound System, an investigational technology aimed at treating hypertension through renal artery denervation.
Jen Rosati has been CFO of Sarasota (Fla.) Memorial Health Care System since February, but her ties to the community go back much further.
Kindred Hospitals, a Louisville, Ky.-based network of long-term acute care hospitals, will cut 143 jobs at Kindred Hospital Bay Area-Tampa (Fla.) and close the hospital in an effort to consolidate facilities, a spokesperson confirmed to Becker’s M…
Chicago-based Rush University System for Health has named Blake Evans system vice president of revenue cycle, according to a March 3 post on his LinkedIn page.
A Tennessee gynecologist has been indicted for allegedly abusing patients, adulterating medical devices for reuse on patients, and healthcare fraud.
