NATIONAL
- Survey: Healthcare execs name data analytics, population health among top challenges for 2018
- 10 Common Physician Compensation Mistakes
- Most hospitals tie doctor pay to productivity; new research examines how that impacts academic medicine
- Trump could make waves with health-care order
- CMS releases star ratings for Medicare Advantage and drug plans, Kaiser earns top marks
- MGMA 2017: Want to remake healthcare? Start with the physician-patient relationship, says Fischer-Wright
- 3 execs offer advice for new digital health entrants
- Physicians call Anthem’s new imaging reimbursement guidelines ‘arbitrary and unwise’: 5 takeaways
- President Trump signs executive order on health care
- Trump’s healthcare executive order: 4 things to know
- HHS drafts strategic plan: 4 things to know
- HIMSS issues 6-point ‘call to action’ for interoperability
- Dr. Scott Gottlieb: Hospitals could see drug shortages in 2 to 3 weeks
- MGMA: 5 attributes of a profitable medical practice
- Trump will end health care cost-sharing subsidies
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
- Hartford HealthCare sues Anthem over emergency services reimbursement arrangement
- Details of Connecticut Valley Hospital alleged patient abuse emerge
- Stamford Health opens children’s inpatient unit
- CT launches end-of-life care program
- CT alleges fraud on Waterbury health provider
- CT Children’s physician group taps Boston exec as president
MAINE
MASSACHUSETTS
- How a Boston-based startup is changing non-emergency medical transportation
- Mass. home health agency charged with $2.7M Medicaid fraud
- Burlington biotech Flexion eyes expansion after FDA approves pain drug
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW YORK
- Vermont and Upstate NY ACOs consolidate leadership under Todd Moore
- Head of NYC public hospitals cites cash-flow crisis
- City to sue state over allegedly withholding hospital funding
- Two WNY hospitals to share doc notes with patients
- Buffalo Medical Group expands partnership with Catholic Health
- New York City Health + Hospitals to sue state over $380M in DSH funding
VERMONT
- Vermont medical center to expand helicopter ambulance use
- Vermont and Upstate NY ACOs consolidate leadership under Todd Moore
- Nine Vermont Hospitals to Participate in All-Payer Experiment Next Year
- Nurses to protest as St. Joseph’s pension receivership unfolds
- R.I. Medical Society names new officers
MID-ATLANTIC / EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
- Telehealth in The Nation’s Capital: DC Board Mulls Regulations
- D.C. Council to consider changes to paid leave law this week
- D.C. official questions city’s ability to implement paid leave law
- D.C. business leaders weigh in on paid leave’s proposed changes
MARYLAND
- Trial begins for Frederick doctor charged in kickback scheme
- Md. Children’s Health Insurance Program is running out of funds
NEW JERSEY
- AG Proposes Stricter Limits on Pay, Gifts to Doctors From Pharma and Device Makers
- A new name and renewed mission for Bergen County hospital
- Hackensack Meridian, Jefferson Health form JV with Med-Metrix
- New Jersey DOH considers ASC owner’s application to buy 204-bed hospital
PENNSYLVANIA
- Business briefs: Fulton County Medical Center names interim CEOs
- Chestnut Hill Hospital, Independence Reach Contract Agreement
- Berks hospital unveils multi-million dollar surgical machine
- St. Luke’s teams with Temple University Hospital to make transplant services more convenient
- Bucks County health system teams up with Beau Biden Foundation
- UPMC acquires Wyoming health information service company
VIRGINIA
- Inova Health System CEO Singleton stepping down after 3 decades at the helm
- ‘You wouldn’t pick someone like me for the next decade’: Inova CEO to step down after 35 years
- Anthem plans to direct some patients away from hospitals for imaging tests
- Reed named chief operating officer for Henrico Doctors’ Hospital
- Virginia hospital closes
- Reston telemedicine firm Avizia acquires Seattle competitor
- HCA Capital Division appoints Susan Shreeve CFO: 3 things to know
- Sentara to cease services at North Carolina medical center
- UVA Partners with Another Children’s Hospital to Enhance Pediatric Care
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
IOWA
KANSAS
- In Rural Kansas, Telemedicine Boosts Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants
- Kansas agency, labor union split over hospital staffing
MINNESOTA
- UnitedHealthcare goes for bigger piece of Minnesota market
- UMN Medical School dean eyed for University of Iowa job
- HCMC Hires Emily Blomberg as COO
- Essentia requiring flu shots for employees, but some question policy
- Why Minnesota is poised to become a hotbed for digital health startups
- A year after strike, Allina nurses seek mediation for new contract
- UCare names interim top exec permanent CEO
MISSOURI
- Report: BJC recommends Boone Hospital join with MU Health Care
- Healthcare CEO hit with $667,000 penalty, prison sentence for stealing Medicaid funds, neglecting residents
- Inside St. Louis’ mobile hospital for children
NEBRASKA
- UNMC research funding, at $117.1 million, surpasses record of fiscal 2016
- Trauma doc Burton agrees to 20-month medical suspension
NORTH DAKOTA
SOUTH DAKOTA
- IHS awards over $1.5 million for South Dakota tribal Health
- HealthPartners expanding in Dakotas in 2018
- Surgeon turned patient advocate to surrender license
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- Regent Surgical Health promotes Bob Ryan to COO: 5 things to know
- UnityPoint Health-Pekin president to retire
- Streator ER can’t accept most ambulances
- How much will St. Elizabeth’s departure hurt downtown Belleville businesses?
- SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital president to retire
- Why one hospital system is cutting while bulking up
- Loyola Medicine to acquire MacNeal; Tenet seeks to sell 3 other Chicago-area hospitals
- Blue Cross Blue Shield drops OSF hospitals, adds Methodist
- Hamilton Memorial Hospital District will not renew CEO contract
- Hammond-Henry Hospital taps Mark Kuhn as CEO: 3 things to know
INDIANA
- Regional Hospital now a Level 2 trauma center
- How Indy health systems are dealing with physician burnout
- Local organizations get $1M for tele-medicine
- The CEO of Indiana’s Statewide HIE Sees Complexity in the Push for Interoperability
- Porter Healthcare System CEO Stephen Lunn leaving for post in Nashville, Tennessee
- Express Scripts to buy medical test gatekeeper for $3.6B
KENTUCKY
- There are not enough veteran nurses. So Kentucky hospitals are offering big cash bonuses
- This Louisville startup was named the state’s most valuable
- One of Louisville’s largest insurers has a new CEO
- PharMerica details millions in golden parachute money for executives
- KentuckyOne Health transfers ownership of clinic for $0
MICHIGAN
- Health system in Michigan opens new heart education center
- Target 8: Spectrum Health patient records left on resold fax
- Nurses go on strike at hospital in northern Michigan
- University Pediatricians in talks to affiliate with UM
- Corner Office: 7 questions with Henry Ford Health System CEO Wright Lassiter
- UPHS-Marquette nurses allegedly ‘locked out’ of hospital after 2-day strike
OHIO
- ‘Microhospitals’ could add to mix of health-care offerings in central Ohio
- Cleveland Clinic strengthening its global grip
- Cleveland Clinic more ‘accessible’ with insurance products
- Wexner Medical Center responds to nurses’ grievance over patient-nurse ratio
- OhioHealth is building small hospital with ASC as outpatient demand spikes in state
- Cleveland Clinic, Select Medical open rehab hospital in Beachwood
- Written bomb threat temporarily postpones surgeries, diverts ER patients at Ohio hospital
- Indiana group wins nearly $1M in funding for rural health, including support for Ohio
- Cleveland Clinic reports $809 million in community benefit
- Summa officially begins search for CEO
- Dayton Children’s Hospital property dispute: What’s really going on?
- Dayton VA leader to join Ohio health organization
- Gahanna inks deal with ExpressMed, Mount Carmel to run employee wellness clinic
- Cincinnati pharmaceutical firm names new CEO
- Former Cleveland Clinic Innovations executive pleads guilty to $2.7 million fraud against hospital system
- Cleveland Clinic enters third integrated payer partnership since June, this time with Anthem
WISCONSIN
- Judge dismisses Sacred Heart Hospital lawsuit, HSHS files notice of appeal in lawsuit
- 5 questions with Marshfield Clinic CIO Denise Webb
- Children’s Hospital completes $8 million challenge for heart center
SOUTH / SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
FLORIDA
- Inside Florida’s Shift to a Prospective Payment System for SNFs
- Layoffs posted for 72 at Miami Jewish Health Systems
- MRMC names new CEO
- University of Florida Health finds RVU-based compensation more satisfactory among staff
- Florida Hospital used telemedicine during Irma
- Miami firm sells Lakeland site to hospital operator for $14.5 million
- Jackson Health System hires hospital CEO from Virginia
- FSCJ opens Medical Simulation Center to help combat nurse shortage
- Florida Hospital Plans Expansion Into Lakeland Area With Land Purchase
- Scott administration eyes hospitals in proposed Medicaid spending cuts
- State Trims Medicaid HMO Payments
- NSU obtains preliminary ok for new medical school, enrollment date set
- Tenet promotes McCoy to CEO of Palm Beach County hospital after previous leader leaves
- Jax-based health care technology company lands big client
- Tampa biotech raises $10M, eyes much bigger funding round
- Tara McCoy is Good Samaritan Medical Center’s new CEO: 4 things to know
GEORGIA
- Impact study: Lee Co. hospital not needed
- Georgia’s attorney general accepts Memorial Health sale proposal
- Macon hospital provided $80 million in uncompensated care last year
- Five things to track: Health care programs facing cuts in Georgia
- Audit at Georgia community health reveals risky Medicaid data procedures
MISSISSIPPI
- UMMC, MUSC Recognized as Telehealth Centers of Excellence
- North Mississippi, Baptist named as respondents in OCH deal
NORTH CAROLINA
- Negotiations Between Healthcare Giants Fail In Western North Carolina
- Michael Jordan donates $7 million to open 2 Charlotte health clinics
- No progress in NMMC, Blue Cross dispute
- Sentara to cease services at North Carolina medical center
- Mission CEO to senior employees: Blue Cross is ‘unethical, bullying foe’
- As North Carolina Moves Towards Medicaid Managed Care, Its Leaders Approach the Operational Issues
- Duke Health Leaders Build the Predictive Analytics Foundations to Improve Patient Care
- Denmark pharma company expanding in Raleigh and abroad
- NCCU lands record $16.3M from NIH
- New Hanover Regional To Open Wound Care & Hyperbarics Facility
SOUTH CAROLINA
- UMMC, MUSC Recognized as Telehealth Centers of Excellence
- Health care industry warns of labor crisis
- BCBS of South Carolina subsidiary to lay off undisclosed number of employees
TENNESSEE
- CFO change at Amedisys
- How local hospital CEOs’ compensation compares
- Methodist marks halfway point in $275 million expansion project
- Local hospitals prepare to rebrand – again
- Souhern College of Optometry sees $1.8M in uncompensated care
- Methodist holds ‘topping out’ ceremony for tower, names it after prominent Memphian
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center inks contract with Cigna, now covered under 2018 ACA exchange
SOUTH-CENTRAL / SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARKANSAS
- New laboratory at Arkansas Children’s Hospital one of two in nation
- Medical Center of South Arkansas appoints Scott Street as chief executive officer
ARIZONA
- Mark Slyter to serve as CEO of Dignity Health Arizona’s East Valley market
- Humana, Iora Health open two more practices
- Tempe St. Luke’s to join largest U.S. private-hospital network
- Sage settles lawsuit for $200 million
LOUISIANA
- East Jefferson General Hospital finds lease partner, same one it always preferred
- Louisiana adds medical technology to apprenticeship program
- Louisiana hospital manager balks at breach-of-contract claim
- Biomedical Research Foundation’s lack of cash continues to worry state officials
NEW MEXICO
- Most out-of-state nurses will soon need New Mexico license to practice in-state
- Judge OKs testimony in malpractice lawsuit
- Gila Regional Medical Center faces financial loss
- New Mexico Hospital Association names Presbyterian Hospitals leader for board chair
OKLAHOMA
- Gov. Mary Fallin announces big cuts to 3 Oklahoma agencies
- Children’s health services jeopardized by state gridlock
- Construction to begin on medical facility in northeast Oklahoma City
TEXAS
- New Hotel at Baylor University Medical Center Aims at Guests Facing Family Health Crises
- Baylor Scott & White ACO adds 3rd commercial insurer to network: Cigna
- Tenet shutters 4 regional management offices to cut costs
- DeTar Healthcare System CEO to retire at year-end: 5 things to know
- 4 HCA hospitals to pay $8.6M to settle ambulance-swapping allegations
- Southwestern Health Resources Aiming to Acquire North Texas Specialty Physicians
- Northwest Texas Healthcare to cut 23 jobs
- MCH pays $5.2 million for hospitalists
- Texas’ largest nursing home operator in hot water for Hurricane Harvey response
- Texas Hospital Association partners with Nomad Health to address critical physician shortages
- Tenet Healthcare Aiming to Trim Its Bureaucracy
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
IDAHO
MONTANA
- Bozeman Health planning to build new outpatient care center in West Bozeman
- USPI, Montana health system open surgery center; USPI/Tenet adds 3 centers in 8-month period & more: 4 ASC company key notes
OREGON
- Wallowa Memorial Hospital closes home health care services
- Jessup steps in as Wallowa Memorial Hospital’s CFO
- Targeting a January vote, Oregon health tax opponents turn in 84K signatures
- Zoom settles suit over health plan, admits no wrongdoing but pays fines
- Oregon healthcare providers can search registry to find patients’ end-of-life wishes
WASHINGTON
- Reston telemedicine firm Avizia acquires Seattle competitor
- Report claims Harrison hospital falls short on charity care
WYOMING
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
- Transition in leadership of Healdsburg Hospital
- Whistleblower lawsuit filed in California against UnitedHealth Group is dismissed
- Column Bad medicine: California lags other states in empowering nurse practitioners
- Rideout Health, Adventist Enter Affiliation
- California to pass drug price transparency bill
- Sonoma Valley Hospital CEO gets raise, bonus, contract extension
- California hospital faces ‘imminent risk of closure,’ says board
- Molina Healthcare appoints Joseph Zubretsky chief executive
- Sutter Health temporarily closes 3 surgery centers, 15 facilities due to California fires
- Medical rehabilitation hospital planned in North Natomas
COLORADO
- Kaiser Permanente Colorado to build second site
- Denver’s Welltok acquires Georgia company, expands reach into hospitals
- Downgrade, stock slide prompts DaVita kidney-fund response
HAWAII
NEVADA
- Physician Assistant deemed risk to public health and safety loses medical license
- Las Vegas hospital waiving medical costs for mass shooting victims
UTAH
