NATIONAL
- Feds boast $2.4B in healthcare fraud judgments, settlements
- GAO Finds Several Medicare Beneficiary Data Vulnerabilities
- Feds, 30 states claim McKesson illegally repackaged cancer drugs to maximize profits
- Fitch identifies biggest issues facing nonprofit hospitals
- The Disappearing Doctor: How Mega-Mergers Are Changing the Business of Medical Care
- How to Ramp Up Physician Engagement at Your Health System
- UnitedHealth builds a physician army in race to control costs
- Healthcare mega-mergers push primary care clinics ‘closer to extinction’: 5 takeaways
- 35 new ASCs in Q1 of 2018
- Facebook confirms asking top hospitals for patient data
- Medscape’s annual physician compensation report finds modest increase in physician pay
- Black Book: Duplicate patient records cost hospitals almost $2k per inpatient stay
- Is the doctor shortage problem overblown?
- Facebook halts hospital data project amid Cambridge Analytica scandal
- CMS Updates MRI and Implanted Cardiac Devices Coverage
- AMA opposes opioid prescription limits
- 1 in 3 CNOs admit nursing shortages are harming patient care
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
- After abuse scandal, CT lawmakers push to reform Whiting
- Norwalk Medical Practice Allegedly Violated False Claims Act: DOJ
- Hartford Hospital holds mass casualty drill on Tuesday
- Malloy says health tech company expanding in Connecticut
- Connecticut Children’s To Expand NICU Service At St. Vincent’s
- Survey: CT residents fret over prescription costs
- Survey: CT doc pay third-highest in U.S.
- Greater Hartford ranked No. 1 for physician assistants
MAINE
- Embattled Calais hospital to discontinue outpatient cancer services
- Tucker steps up as Greater Portland Health’s new CEO
- Calais Regional Hospital announces new cost-cutting measures
MASSACHUSETTS
- Nurses at Massachusetts hospital plan one-day strike
- Hearing planned in Boston for proposed 13-hospital merger
- Carney Hospital president takes new job
- Tufts hospital CEO criticizes planned Beth Israel-Lahey merger
- Ballot question could impose nurse-patient staffing ratios
- Boston City Council Holds Hearing on Proposed Merger of 13 Hospitals
- BCBS of Massachusetts cherry picks digital health tools for new platform
- Proposed hospital merger gets key state approval
- Baystate Franklin nurses on the picket line: ‘There are problems inside this hospital’
- Carney Hospital president to leave in July
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- New Hampshire hospitals take aim at the opioid epidemic, invest $50M in state initiatives
- New Hampshire Medicaid expansion renewal gains steam in state House
- Hospital losses accrue despite positive 2017
- New Hampshire hospitals win challenge to Medicaid payment rules
NEW YORK
- Sisters Hospital to open expanded ‘family-centered’ neonatal unit
- Cayuga Medical Center, Family Health Network announce collaboration agreement for clinical care
- NYU Langone Health to open outpatient building for specialty practices
- Ticonderoga health facilities change hands
- Why valets matter, and other insights from health system’s CEO
- Westfield Memorial Hospital unveils new emergency department
- In union fight, Albany Med nurses seek higher pay, benefits and respect
- CEO of Visiting Nurse Service of New York resigns
- New York state to award $15 million in grants for medical schools
- Medina hospital signs affiliation deal with Rochester Regional
- New York oncology practice files for bankruptcy following FBI raid
RHODE ISLAND
- Mayor, CharterCare to make announcement about Memorial Hospital
- CharterCARE offers to invest $10M in Memorial, plans revival starting with ER, CNE downplays plan
- Commerce RI approves incentives for new Amgen biomanufacturing facility
- Prospect subsidiary offers to buy, reopen shuttered Rhode Island hospital
VERMONT
MID-ATLANTIC / EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DELAWARE
- Analysis: Spending on health care leaves rest of economy in the dust
- Wilmington consulting firm takes aim at healthcare costs of lab tests
- The legacy behind Christiana Care’s new health center
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
- MedImmune spinoff leads Greater Washington to stellar VC funding quarter
- DC VA hospital’s acting director departs amid investigation into his appointment
- Washington Post: Why DC shouldn’t ‘blow’ $300M on hospital
MARYLAND
- MedStar hospital to shutter pediatric inpatient, ER units; 20 jobs affected
- Franklin Square Hospital to combine pediatric, main emergency rooms
- PRMC, McCready hospitals consider partnership
- Mixed reviews for Maryland’s unique hospital payment system
- Maryland governor signs bills to help stabilize health care
- Rothman talks providing healthcare in Baltimore
NEW JERSEY
- Earned sick leave, out-of-network bills in health legislation
- New Jersey AG fines Virtua Medical Group $418K for HIPAA violations tied to vendor oversight
- Six New Jersey Health Systems Borrow a Page From Amazon
PENNSYLVANIA
- How a Pa. health system reduced opioid prescriptions by more than half
- Penn Medicine forges new clinical care alliance
- Drexel and Tower to open medical school branch at Reading Hospital
- Bucktail Medical Center out of bankruptcy
- Allegheny Health Network lays off 75 in back-office jobs; plans to hire up to 1,000 more
- Independence Health Group posts profit gain in competitive market
- Tower Health ASC becomes 1st to win TrueNorth award
- Physician’s estate agrees to pay $625,000 false claims settlement
- Founding CEO of Trevena biopharm firm to retire
- Firm at center of Pa. Medicaid contract controversy to open $20M call center in Blair County
- Tower Health eyes academic medical center designation
- Jefferson Health to eliminate 400 hospital beds by 2022
- 3 Pennsylvania health systems just teamed up in Greater Philadelphia
- Interim-CEO named for Hahnemann University Hospital
- National surgery center developer to open site in Bucks County
VIRGINIA
- Sovah Health in Martinsville becomes part of Duke Heart Network
- Virginia is on the verge of expanding Medicaid to 400,000 people
- Sentara Healthcare’s annual net income nearly doubles
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
IOWA
- Dubuque hospital again seeking state OK for cancer center
- Iowa health care authorities approve reimbursement model for Medicaid services
- UI receives $21 million health research grant
KANSAS
- Shawnee Mission Health opens new hybrid
- Mid-Continent Anesthesiology sues two former presidents
- Kansas Regulators Say Quick Action Needed To Protect Residents Of Failing Nursing Homes
MINNESOTA
- Sanford welcomes new vice presidents
- Allina Health Recovers From System-Wide Stint of EHR Downtime
- Conditions of Minn. State Hospitals Reach Crisis Point, Officials Say
- Mayo Clinic offers buyouts to hundreds of medical transcriptionists
- Fairview, Allina push back on Regions expansion plan
- Minnesota cancer care network to expand access to clinical trials
- HealthPartners taps former Target exec to lead HR
- Former HealthEast CEO takes top exec job at Portland health system
MISSOURI
- Missouri governor OKs $700M budget hike, mainly for Medicaid
- Feds: Missouri company and its owner will pay $525,000 to settle false claims case
- Feds give Kansas, Missouri more say in health insurance
NEBRASKA
- About 1,650 Nebraska nursing home workers are paid after state steps in
- 13 counties in Nebraska still lack a primary care physician, UNMC report says
- Nebraska health group will pay $677,000 over allegations of false Medicare, Medicaid claims
- Gothenburg Health has positive economic impact
- Children’s opening 2nd pediatric ICU; full beds have forced hospital to send away 400 kids since 2015
- Cash-strapped Nebraska hospital seeks $800k to avoid closure
- Community discusses hospital bond
- Nebraska assisted-living facility oversight committee approved
NORTH DAKOTA
SOUTH DAKOTA
- Sanford, Mid Dakota await appeal in Bismarck merger case
- Mary’s looking forward to another year of big changes in 2018
- New hospital opens in Custer
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- Memorial Hospital gets third new doctors’ group
- Hospital doing more with less
- of C. trauma center gains final state approval, set to open May 1
- New law lifts stalled senior housing project at former Ravenswood Hospital
- Rural Illinois ACO to Implement Cerner Population Health Platform
- SIH unveils $23.7M expansion in Herrin
- Herrin Hospital expands some of its departments
- He started in computers. Now he’s running a hospital.
- Rush, Little Company of Mary Hospital call off merger plan
INDIANA
- Vincent confirms land purchase in Carmel
- Hospital staff professional assumes state leadership role
- Franciscan Health unveils West Tower expansion
- Elizabeth to Open Greendale Facility
- Alabama-based trust buys Lutheran cancer center building for $15 million
- Cautionary Tale: Health System Victim of ‘Breach Season’
- Hospital works with ride-sharing business to transport patients
- Baptist Health Floyd Names Executive Director of Finance
- Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital expands PICU to care for more critically ill children
- Medical Device Startup Looking to Win Big
- Consultants to present findings Friday on new uses for hospital site
KENTUCKY
- Kentucky Attorney General files court action to protect health care system
- Kindred Agrees to Pay $12 Million to Settle Labor Related Charges
- Kindred Shareholders Approve Humana Deal Amid Walmart Speculation
- Elizabeth to Open Greendale Facility
- Medical Device Startup Looking to Win Big
- Norton Healthcare named a Workplace of the Year
- Humana expands Medicare business with acquisition of physicians group
- Humana acquires large Medicare Advantage, managed care physicians group in Florida
- Kindred Healthcare settles overtime case for $12 million
MICHIGAN
- Henry Ford Health System announces $20 million gift from anonymous donor
- New PACE facility in Dearborn helps expand long-term care services for area seniors
- 4 insights into Priority Health’s + BCBS of Michigan’s hip and knee bundled payment programs
- Spectrum Health partners with genetic-based wellness company on new offering
- McLaren Lansing names new President and CEO
- Health system acquires practice and urgent care center
- Gwen MacKenzie to leave as top executive at Ascension Michigan
- Michigan Medicine receives record-setting $150M gift to enhance cancer care
- UP Health System-Portage taps new CEO
OHIO
- Summa Health ready to submit application to re-establish lost emergency medicine residency training program
- Mercy Health Opens $4.2M Infusion Center
- OB/GYN department first to close at Good Samaritan Hospital
- How Cleveland Clinic CIO Ed Marx helps his staff navigate change
- University Hospitals replaces director of fertility clinic
- University Hospitals buys Andover health facility
- Nursing home assistants among Ohio’s most dangerous occupations: A Critical Choice
- Trotwood dialysis facility sells for $1.8M
- Skilled nursing facility to open in Washington Township
- Shane Knisley is Fairfield Hospital’s new COO
WISCONSIN
- ‘Going to have an impact:’ City leaders concerned after services impacted at St. Joseph Hospital
- Ascension Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Hospital moving to Elmbrook Memorial Hospital
- City officials criticize Ascension downsizing of safety-net hospital St. Joseph
SOUTH / SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
- UAB to build new medical facility in Hoover
- In the Southern U.S., Alabama Leaders Look to Evolve HIT Efforts
FLORIDA
- Martin Health System seeks big investment as it negotiates exclusively with Cleveland Clinic
- OrthoNow founder passes CEO title to veteran health care executive Mendez
- South Florida adult congenital heart program first in state to be accredited
- Curahealth buys Specialty Hospital
- Baptist Health South Florida, Navigant Form RCM Joint Venture
- Tampa private partnership aimed at reducing nursing shortages hits important mark
- Haven Hospice will pay over $5 million to resolve allegations
- Arnold Palmer Hospital president retires
- Florida eye doctor ordered to pay millions more
- Boca Raton hospital receives $25M donation for new patient tower
- Florida hospital opening $34M ER, outpatient surgery center
- Humana acquires large Medicare Advantage, managed care physicians group in Florida
- Broward Health adds 4 executives
GEORGIA
- Telehealth can expand health care access in Georgia
- Ex-CEO of hospital, doctors indicted in pain pill scheme
- HHS says Ciox Health lawsuit challenging HIPAA enforcement lacks standing
- Georgia hospital closure will result in 200 layoffs
- University of Georgia, state to absorb out-of-pocket claims for 600k employees affected by Piedmont-BCBS split
- Phoebe Putney Health System has $1.28 billion impact in 2016
- Hospital generates more than $27,824,210 to economy
- Georgia governor asks Piedmont, Blue Cross to reach deal
- Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta opening its first urgent care center inside the perimeter
MISSISSIPPI
- Children’s of Mississippi collaborating with Memorial Hospital in Gulfport
- UMMC physicians creating opioid use alternatives model
NORTH CAROLINA
- Onslow Memorial Hospital experiences financial loss
- 10 years later: Merger of Novant and Rowan changed local care
- North Carolina wants to review Cary birthing centers where 3 died
- Raleigh’s NovaQuest acquires Massachusetts pharma firm for $69.9 million
- Document: Novant, Memorial officials planned hospital takeover in three-year deal
- Frye Regional Medical Center offers neurosurgery for the first time in more than a decade
- Wake Forest Baptist Back in Medicare’s Good Graces
- Here’s where things stand with Atrium and the doctors who want to break away
- Novant Health Brunswick Endoscopy Center readies for opening
- New CEO takes helm at hospital
- Mission Health-HCA adds to vigorous pace of health system M&A in 2018, with deals expected to grow larger
- Freestanding North Carolina endoscopy center to open, 1st in Brunswick County
- Santa Ana: Hospital exceeding its goals
- Doctor home visit program reduces emergency room visits
- Atrium Health’s Levine Children’s Hospital announce $5 million donation from Isabella Santos Foundation
SOUTH CAROLINA
- OPINION: GHS board has worked hard to address concerns of council
- Here’s what to do if your Midlands doctors office is closing
- New family medicine practice to open in Forest Acres
TENNESSEE
- ER Visits Show Methodist South Filling Primary Care Gap in Whitehaven
- Covenant Health announces Fort Sanders expansion plans; approval needed
- Two Tennessee healthcare execs charged in $4.6 million Medicare scheme
- Admissions halted at nursing home that removed patient for smoking
- New bill promises better stroke care in Tennessee
- UTHSC set to open new $39M training facility
- Tennessee doctors plead guilty in $65 million military health care fraud scheme
- Microsoft sues Community Health Systems for copyright infringement
- Ballad Health selects new chief HR officer
- HCA buys doc group in Texas
- CHS lays off dozens of corporate employees
SOUTH-CENTRAL / SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARKANSAS
- CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs Joins ACH’s Nursery Alliance
- Medical Center and Arkansas Heart Hospital announce strategic alliance
- CHI St. Vincent selects former CHI St. Luke’s Health-Memorial exec as CFO
ARIZONA
- Arizona Center for Cancer Care faces lawsuit alleging $8 million in Medicare fraud
- Former Banner Health exec named CEO of Cancer Treatment Centers of America’s Arizona hospital
- Banner Health settles whistleblower case for $18 million
- Coyotes give $250,000 to Phoenix Children’s Hospital
LOUISIANA
- ‘No timeline’ for Medicaid work requirements, state says
- Safety-net hospitals, med school leaders sound budget alarm
- House panel cites ‘red flags’ in Louisiana Medicaid spending
- Louisiana exploring option to implement work requirements for Medicaid beneficiaries
- Lafayette General threatens to shutter hospital amid budget impasse
- Louisiana House ‘grannycam’ bill unanimously approved
- Teche Regional Medical Center taps Aphreikah DuHaney-West as permanent CEO
NEW MEXICO
- Texas healthcare company to bring 244 jobs to Albuquerque
- Health care co. commits to Downtown, will bring over 200 jobs
OKLAHOMA
- Potential Oklahoma E-Prescribing Law Still up in the Air
- Doctors Question Push For More Independent Nurses As Lawmakers Consider How to Fill Health Gaps
- Medical cost transparency bill dies in Oklahoma House with little support
TEXAS
- Quantum and River Oaks Form JV for Medical Billing Blockchain Initiative
- Taking the pulse of Texas hospitals, revenue is up, but rural care is down
- Texas intensifies efforts to boost maternal health care
- Hendrick Health System CEO to retire, ending 14-year tenure
- Driscoll Children’s Hospital CEO announces retirement
- United General Hospital Signs 44,569 SF Lease at Texas Medical Center in Houston
- El Paso ER closes two years after opening
- Opinion: Why Tarrant County can’t wait any longer to expand healthcare
- Curahealth buys Specialty Hospital
- Texas hospital closes ED to reduce expenses
- Freestanding ERs still mislead consumers, says Texas legislator who wrote transparency law
- Baylor Scott & White Pop Health Initiative Reduced ED, Inpatient Care Use
- Texas Health Says it Spent $140 Million in North Texas Last Year
- Baylor Scott & White Health Breaks Ground On New Medical Center In Buda
- HCA-affiliated St. David’s HealthCare acquires 9 Texas clinics
- Nurse fired, arrested after patient dies at Texas hospital
- Texas health care company owes $11.5 million after kickback allegations
- Dallas medical property firm Caddis launches $1 billion investment deal
- Steward Health Care lines up big leases in Richardson, downtown Dallas
- Rural hospital group in Texas finds success, controversy in eschewing commercial insurance
- Tenet defeats class-action lawsuit alleging overpayments
- Parkland’s New Chief Talent Officer on His New Role, Recruiting Talent, and Diversity and Inclusion
- HCA buys doc group in Texas
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
IDAHO
- Primary Health Medical Group holds grand opening for Ten Mile location
- Luke’s asks for exemptions as it readies next phase of Downtown campus project
- Grand opening of new vascular facility in Pocatello set for Thursday
- Idaho hospital faces cash crunch after software glitch causes billing problems
MONTANA
- Changing Health Care Landscape Forces ‘Realignment’ at Kalispell Hospital
- Bozeman Health plans $75 million expansion, increase in intensive care
- Bozeman hospital lauded at health care conference
- Community Medical Center launches new cardiac program
- Report shows Montana’s Medicaid expansion paying for itself
- Montana health system lays off less than 1% of employees amid realignment
OREGON
- Providence nurses hold informational picket to bring awareness to negotiations
- Legacy taps Minneapolis-area woman as next CEO
WASHINGTON
- UW Medical Center considers shuttering psychiatry department
- Washington hospitals rank highest for midwife integration
- Nursing to be most in-demand profession in Spokane, forecast says
WYOMING
- Wyoming Medical Center to Buy Mountain View Regional Hospital
- Wyoming Medical Center will acquire Mountain View surgical center
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
- Hospital hires new CFO; board may vote to remove member
- California bill would create health care price controls
- Dignity Health forecasts big returns on microhospital investment as facilities meet demands of underserved communities
- California hospital’s new CFO touted for revenue cycle and billing experience
- What the CEOs of Dignity Health, CHI expect to achieve in $28B merger
- Kindred Agrees to Pay $12 Million to Settle Labor Related Charges
- California’s new rules for workplace violence prevention in hospitals take effect
- Doctors Hospital of Manteca taps Neil Pithadia as chief strategy officer
- Family files lawsuit against radiologist, 2 other doctors, 2 California hospitals for medical negligence
- Stanford specialist recruited as new head of UC Davis Vascular Center
- CHA says proposed healthcare cost-setting bill could slash California hospitals’ annual revenues by at least $18B
- ACGME strips California hospital’s accreditation for surgical residency program
COLORADO
- Federal audit raps Colorado’s $10B Medicaid program for poor safeguards against fraud, abuse
- Denver hospital waited 6 weeks to warn patients of sterilization fail
- Bipartisan bill to bring transparency to Colorado health care costs
- Denver hospital to offer blood testing after spine, orthopedic surgery infection control breach
- Ex-Memorial Hospital employee wins nearly $1 million jury verdict
- What the CEOs of Dignity Health, CHI expect to achieve in $28B merger
- Jury awards former Memorial Hospital sonographer nearly $1 million
- West Springs Hospital needs county’s support
- Colorado hospital delays surgeries during investigation
- Air ambulance to be based at MMH
- Longmont United Hospital laying off about 30 employees
- Centura hospital to cut staff by 4% — layoffs amount to fewer than 30 workers
- Southwest Health System ousts 3 executives, including CEO
HAWAII
- Ige releases $1 million in CIP funds for Kohala Hospital
- Hawaii Passes Medically-Assisted Suicide Law
- Hawaii physician receives rare honor
- Hawaii Health Systems Corp. appoints Lance Segawa CEO of Kauai region
- Kaiser Permanente Hawaii pays $22M to buy Maui land from A&B
NEVADA
- Nevada looks to learn from past mistakes in health platform switch
- Sunrise gets new chief nursing officer
UTAH
