NATIONAL
- CMS gives providers another week to decide whether to jump into BPCI Advanced
- The biggest financial pain points hospitals feel right now: Experts weigh in
- 340B overhaul at the top of Congress, Azar’s mind
- CMS Suspends $10.4B in Risk Adjustment Payments to Payers
- Atul Gawande starts first day as CEO of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan health venture
- CMS to allow hospitals to withdraw from BPCI Advanced in March
- New Research Reveals MIPS Confusion Among Physicians
- AMGA urges CMS to lower MIPS exclusion threshold
- 63 new ASCs in 2018 so far
- Analysis: Many States Continue to Have Restrictive Telemedicine Policies
- Hospital consolidation alone hasn’t delivered on promises of interoperability
- Amazon, Google, Apple to drive life sciences market to $1.5T by 2022, report says
- GAO again recommends improvements to 340B program
- Amazon reportedly working with startup to launch medical product delivery at major health systems
- FCC unveils plans for a $100M connected care pilot program
- CMS Proposes 2019 Physician Payment, Quality Payment Program Changes
NORTHEAST
(Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont)
CONNECTICUT
- UConn Health, Jackson Lab To Collaborate On Statewide Pain Consortium
- Vincent’s nursing program’s merger with SHU finalized
- Settlement Reached In Norwich Behavioral Health Case: AG Jepsen
- Norwich Health Practice Pays $300,000 to Settle False Claims Act Violations
- DCP: Walmart Pharmacy first to link drug data in monitoring program
MAINE
MASSACHUSETTS
- KeraNetics agrees to merge with Mass. biotechnology company
- Massachusetts House to consider opioid bill Wednesday
- Bill to combat opioid crisis rejects 72-hour hold, adds mandate for hospital care
- Boston startup Medically Home wants to bring the hospital to you
- Waltham biotech Visterra acquired by Japan’s Otsuka for $430M
- Question on nurse staffing limits to appear on November ballot
- Frances Anthes stepping down as health center CEO
- Fallon hires chief medical officer, SVP
- Worcester health center CEO to retire
- Beth Israel, Lahey merger faces pushback from attorney general
NEW HAMPSHIRE
- New Hampshire seeks public input on opioid response
- Payments freeze muddies NH health insurance market
NEW YORK
- Oscar Health finds a new headquarters
- New York hospital to build patient pavilion with 90 private rooms
- Arnot Health President Robert Lambert retires
- Company to pay $15M to resolve false claims allegations
- First armed security guards stationed at NYC hospitals
- Pharma sues New York over ‘unconstitutional’ opioid tax
- NYC Health + Hospitals accused of age discrimination in lawsuit
- Ellis Medicine to remain independent
- Albany Med names new chief operating officer
- Long Island group moves ahead on LeRoy nursing home acquisition
- Wellsville hospital CEO receives national award
- Catholic Health hospital employees picket amid contract negotiations
RHODE ISLAND
- Rhode Island Hospital Lands $13M Renovation Project
- Rhode Island Hospital, Union Reach Tentative Contract Agreement
- I. Congressional delegation pushes for immediate release of $12.5M opioid funding
- Westerly Hospital welcomes new associate chief nursing officer
VERMONT
- Sanders: Nurses’ contract negotiation is about priorities
- Clinic coming to Brattleboro eschews health insurance
- Nurses’ contract agreement was not reached, talks continue
- UVM Medical nurses strike: Burlington unions say they’ll join nurses on picket line
- Vermont hospital to spend more than $3M on improved MRI services
- Nurses working without contract as negotiations continue
MID-ATLANTIC / EAST
(Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia)
DELAWARE
- Beebe releases new details of medical campus expansion
- For Delaware’s primary care doctors, exciting times are ahead
- Highmark requests 5.7% rate increase for ACA health plans
- Report: Cancer mortality rates on decline in Delaware
- State-of-the-art medical office coming to Churchmans Road
- Bayhealth to open $314M replacement hospital in February
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
- MedStar Health Names Doner as Agency of Record
- C. hospital gets the green light for a new helipad
- Howard University Hospital taps Crystal Wheeler as chief people officer
MARYLAND
- Joint Commission denies Baltimore hospital preliminary accreditation
- City sets standards for scoring hospitals on how well they can treat opioid addiction
- Maryland governor signs federal all-payer health contract
- Inside look at Atlantic General Hospital’s newest cancer care center
- Baltimore hospitals to be classified based on ability to treat opioid addiction, overdoses
- Baltimore biotech targeting rare diseases raises $4 million
NEW JERSEY
- Fort Monmouth’s Hexagon will be home to RWJBarnabas medical campus
- $5.9M addition: Cooper expands emergency department to keep pace with growing demand
- AMI AtlantiCare opens imaging center in Manahawkin
- Hackensack UMC, UHC offer bundled payment option for joint, spine procedures
- Hampshire Cos. breaks ground on medical offices project
PENNSYLVANIA
- Nurse union reaches labor agreement with CHS
- Federal Court Sides with Main Line Health in HIPAA Violation Case
- Wills Eye Hospital receives $5 million gift from Farbers
- Pennsylvania hospital cited for failing to stabilize patient who died at separate facility
- Pittsburgh Hospitals Put Protocols, Safety Measures In Place To Protect Patients’ Embryos
- How Philly can grow the next generation of leading biotech startups
- UPMC to open Family Care Connection Center in Penn Hills
- William Jennings is Reading Hospital’s new CEO
- Geisinger purchases medical office building occupied by its rival for $6.4M
- Lehigh Valley Health Network plans $111M ED revamp
VIRGINIA
- Inova Health System joins shift in hospitals investing in inpatient behavioral health
- Sentara Healthcare To Develop 24-Bed Hospital
- Local delegation raises concerns over planned hospital tax
- Northam tours Norton Community Hospital, talks Medicaid expansion
- VCU Health employee inappropriately accesses 4.7K patients’ EHRs
WEST VIRGINIA
- Ex-West Virginia health CEO charged with harassing successor
- Wheeling Hospital again earns national recognition for treating heart attacks
CENTRAL
(Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota)
IOWA
- Judge scolds University of Iowa for delays in children’s hospital dispute
- Iowa’s doctor-licensing board places its director on leave, but it won’t say why
- Tower of Troubles: Acclaimed UI Children’s Hospital emerges from blown budget and deadlines
- Why one Iowa hospital uses essential oils in its ER
- Broadlawns to add a third floor to hospital with $29M expansion
KANSAS
- Labette Health trustees OK Chanute clinic
- Health care has been a ‘consistent and stable’ employer in Wichita. But is it growing?
- Sabetha Community Hospital receives Level IV Trauma Center Designation
- These are the 5 biggest surgery centers in the Kansas City-area
- How a hospital bed shortage is harming mental healthcare in rural Kansas
- Topeka’s St. Francis has a new CEO
- Shawnee Mission Health’s new CEO outlines expansion plans
- Michael Mullins to serve as permanent leader of St. John Health System
MINNESOTA
- Hutchinson Health expansion completed
- Minnesota health plans at risk to lose $71.1M
- Cloud Hospital Ranked Best In Midwest For Open Heart Surgery
- Minneapolis-based insurer Bright Health adding three new states
MISSOURI
- Missouri tells providers to use managed Medicaid or face a 10% payment cut
- SLU Hospital helping kidney transplant patients with strategies for finding donors
- Children’s Mercy Hospital Phishing Attack Impacts PHI of 60K
- Proposed class action over fees charged for medical records removed to federal court
- Louis hospitals ramping up efforts to head off OB-GYN doctor shortage
- New Dunklin Co. hospital on ballot for August
- CHS closes Missouri hospital; physicians put their money on the line to expand services
- These are the 5 biggest surgery centers in the Kansas City-area
- Children’s Mercy facing class-action lawsuit after data breach
- Patient demand drives $70 million expansion on Hospital Hill
- Things still aren’t going well for Missouri hospital skewered by an audit last year
- Third lawsuit filed over MU biojoint surgery
- Missouri system lays off 68 employees, 45 IT contractors
- Cass Regional Medical Center: Restoration 90% complete after ransomware attack
NEBRASKA
- Nebraska’s chief medical officer and public health director will retire in August
- Healthcare Expansion in Nebraska on the November Ballot
- Is telehealth the answer to Nebraska’s mental health care shortage?
- Methodist Health, Fremont Health moving ahead with partnership
- UNMC Looks To Improve Patient Care With $2.6 Million Grant
- UNL, UNMC show off $44 million collaboration for nursing, health center; ‘we are stronger together’
- UNMC grant to improve patient care with RN’s enhanced role
- ‘The secret sauce for success’; UNL, UNMC show off $44 million collaboration
SOUTH DAKOTA
MIDWEST
(Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin)
ILLINOIS
- Illinois teaching hospital escapes whistleblower lawsuit
- The new director of the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services.
- Quincy City Council approves two Blessing Hospital requests
- South Shore Hospital tells state it needs $3 million in funding by Aug. 1 to avoid shutdown
- Chicago hospital needs $3M infusion to avoid closure
INDIANA
- Deaconess, Methodist Agree on Affiliation
- IU Health’s new regional leader looking to future
- Hendricks Regional Health disputes Anthem’s payment rates at new Brownsburg hospital
- USI, Memorial Hospital partner to bring nurses to area
- Are Nurse Practitioners The Solution To Indiana’s Physician Shortage?
- IU Researchers Working Toward ‘On-Demand’ Organs
- Community Rehab Hospital Opens in Greenwood
KENTUCKY
- Louisville-based Humana named Kentucky’s most valuable brand
- UK HealthCare patients seek class-action status for lawsuit alleging illegal billing
- Humana forced by feds to pay out back wages
- Patients Seek Class-Action Status for Lawsuit Over Billing
- Kentucky doctor said Anthem is making people afraid to go to ER
- KVC Health Systems names executive vice president of clinical advancement
- Guilty verdict reinstated for KY doctor accused of doing unneeded heart procedures
- Humana And Private Equity Finalize $1.4 Billion Curo Health Hospice Deal
- A look at the $14 million in Louisville health care projects approved by the state
- Kindred Continues Growth of Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospital Business in Partnership with Leading Health Systems
- Louisville-based Global Healthcare acquiring firm in Germany
MICHIGAN
- Ascension At Home expands home health, hospice services in Michigan, other states
- Spectrum Health takes regional approach to Fremont, Ludington hospitals
- Mercy Health to begin work on urgent care in former Old Country Buffet
- Munson VP works to build a culture of safety
- Lapeer nurses vote to authorize strike if contract agreement isn’t reached
- Spectrum Health System plans acquisition of Lakeland Health
- Medical company makes leadership changes
- Investor acquires medical device manufacturer
- Randall Kelley to serve as president of 2 Spectrum Health hospitals
OHIO
- Kettering Health to build larger Troy hospital than first planned
- CareSource to expand into veterans health care
- Ohio State University seeks annexation of land, tax incentives for new outpatient campus
- How an Ohio health system says it cut opioid prescriptions for acute pain by 62%
- Timeline: Here’s what’s next for Good Sam closure
- Cleveland Clinic joins 50 hospitals in deploying Apple Health Records
- UC Health moves helicopter base to NKY
- Elizabeth launches precision medicine center focused on genetics
- UH Samaritan building new $17M facility in Madison, bringing jobs to the area
- UC Health, West Chester Hospital reach settlement in case alleging negligence for credentialing Dr. Atiq Durrani
- University Hospitals Opens New Medical Center In Cleveland
- Cleveland Clinic announces collaboration with medical group in China
- UC Health acquires doctor group
- Bulk of Ohio physicians still overprescribe opioids, despite legislation
- U of Cincinnati Health to end exec health program
WISCONSIN
- Navitus builds new headquarters, keeps distance from big drug benefit managers
- Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s Milwaukee working to become tertiary-care hospital
- Audit finds $2.4M Medicare overpayments at U. Wisconsin Hospitals
- Phishing attack on Manitowoc County breaches PHI for 3 months
- Wisconsin DHS announces new grants to support health care access in rural areas
- Advocate Aurora Health and Foxconn plan to collaborate on developing new technology for health care
- Advocate Aurora Health enters employee wellness, ‘smart city’ collaboration with Foxconn
- OIG tags Wisconsin hospital for erroneous billing
- Luke Beirl is Hayward Area Memorial Hospital’s permanent CEO
SOUTH / SOUTHEAST
(Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee)
ALABAMA
- New CEO takes reigns at BWWMH
- North Alabama Medical Center recruits new specialized physicians to the Shoals
- An ER That’s Making Thoughtful Changes — and Happier Patients
- How safe are Alabama’s hospitals? Here are the latest report cards
- Health IT is going through a ‘renaissance’ – 3 questions with U of Alabama at Birmingham department of medicine CIO Nazmul Islam
- New health care company opens in City Federal Building
FLORIDA
- Nemours CEO ready to embrace community
- Florida practitioners agree to pay $1.7M to resolve false claims case
- Hospitals in Collier challenge competitors for new Estero hospital
- Hospitals in Northeast Florida keep construction contractors busy
- Jacksonville’s Liberty Ambulance must pay $1.2 million settlement to feds
- Tampa medical firm sells clinical research arm
- New Seven Rivers CEO touts benefits of Bayfront, targets wait times, cardiovascular care
- FHCA debuts downtown Tallahassee headquarters after $3M expansion
- Lee Health docs complain of ‘burnout,’ top-heavy administration
- Florida Hospital taps new CFO, COO for DeLand facility
- Florida Health Care Association opens new training center
GEORGIA
- An Atlanta-based app uses blockchain to make it easier for patients to access their health information
- FMC to appeal rejection of open heart surgery CON
- New chief operating officer named for Coliseum Health System
- Hospital buys into SNF beds
- CHOA celebrates opening of new Center for Advanced Pediatrics
MISSISSIPPI
NORTH CAROLINA
- Atrium Health pilot could help narrow rural health-care gap through emerging tech
- Brown named VP of Iredell Health System physician network
- Duke teams with Microsoft to open a medical research hub
- Novant Health Rowan takes on initiatives, goals
- A high-profile lawsuit against Atrium Health comes to an end
- Hospitals across the Piedmont are dealing with a shortage of drugs including morphine and fentanyl citrate
- KeraNetics agrees to merge with Mass. biotechnology company
- North Carolina hospital seeks to resume low-risk deliveries
- Wake Forest Baptist files papers for renovations in its main hospital
- Will Mission-HCA deal speed closure of rural WNC hospitals?
- Feds threaten to boot Triangle nursing homes accused of patient abuse out of Medicare
- UNC Rex Healthcare names Ernie Bovio COO
- Nearly $11 million in work proposed at Wesley Long
- UNC Hospitals ready to break ground on new surgical tower
- Why UNC Hospitals is seeking approval for $32M outpatient clinics
- Medical practice eyes $3.1M in new facilities after split from Atrium Health
- 28 ambulances break down while transporting patients to hospitals in Charlotte, N.C.
- Vidant Health chief administrative officer retires
SOUTH CAROLINA
- Health Sciences South Carolina lights up a FHIR-based clinical data repository
- MUSC names a new chief innovation officer
TENNESSEE
- Comprehensive Pain Specialists closure: What to know after pain clinics shut down
- Saint Thomas Health names CFO for two hospitals
- HCA looks to sell Louisiana hospital
- Giant pain clinic company closing doors months after CEO indicted for Medicare fraud
- Public health care company CEO retires
SOUTH-CENTRAL / SOUTHWEST
(Arkansas, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas)
ARKANSAS
- Family gives $1 million to Arkansas hospital
- Arkansas director focuses on patient-centered care
- Arkansas Children’s Hospital ex-employee investigated for misuse of patient info
- Sparks Health System CEO to Resign July 15
ARIZONA
- Federal funding cuts could lead to fewer health care navigators in Arizona
- Business awards earned in Southern Arizona
- After 20 years, Arizona Heart Hospital continues to innovate
LOUISIANA
- New Chief Operating Officer for Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center begins first week
- Ochsner opens physical therapy clinic in former Walgreens location Uptown
NEW MEXICO
- Holy Cross Hospital opens pediatric clinic in Taos
- Ex-Santa Fe cardiologist sentenced to four years in fraud case
- Health care company hires for more than 100 jobs in Albuquerque
- New Mexico physician fakes cancer diagnosis to avoid 4-year sentence for billing fraud
OKLAHOMA
- Executive Q&A with Jay Johnson: Duncan hospital CEO returns home to provide utmost care to area families
- Michael Mullins to serve as permanent leader of St. John Health System
TEXAS
- Texas must help consumers understand freestanding ERs
- Feds say kickbacks and bribes forced surgical patients to travel long distance to Dallas hospital
- Texas hospital ends automatic lunch breaks for ER staff over payroll dispute
- Lawsuit: Texas hospital violated HIPAA, mischaracterized lab results to police
- New leadership at Texas Children’s Cancer Center
- An Updated List of Rural Hospital Closures in Texas Since 2010
- Healthcare less affordable than other basic needs for many Texans: 5 poll findings
- Christus Health Makes Oncology Investment In East Texas
- How Texas clinics are breaking down mental healthcare barriers
- Methodist Dallas To Get A New Unit For the Terminally Ill
- Texas Loses Precious Residency Spots As UNTHSC-affiliated Program Shutters
- Rehabilitation provider opens $22M facility in Fort Worth
- Texans missing or delaying needed treatment because health costs too high
- Plano hospital firm hires JLL to manage properties in D-FW and nationwide
- Houston proposes 70% increase in ambulance transport fees
- Famed Baylor St. Luke’s surgeon sues Houston Chronicle, ProPublica for defamation
- HCA helps fill gap in care left by Houston hospital closure
NORTHWEST
(Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming)
ALASKA
- Federal funding increase will keep CCMC connected
- Connection Between Alaska Hospitals and State PDMP Goes Live
- Medical providers stand behind 80th percentile rule
IDAHO
- Idaho pharmacist sues hospital, alleging discrimination
- Two-thirds of Idahoans support Medicaid expansion to 62,000; District 7 comes out strong
MONTANA
- CFO: Montana hospital engaged in billing fraud, kickback scheme
- Roundup hospital to launch ePharmacy service
- Mineral Community Hospital appoints interim CEO
OREGON
- Providence Portland Medical Center names permanent chief executive
- OHA report details insurance payments to hospitals for most common procedures
- Legacy’s new CFO already knows her way around Portland
- Legacy Health taps MultiCare executive as new CFO
WASHINGTON
- Trios Health just sold this patient service
- AP Exclusive: Washington psychiatric hospital called ‘hell’
- Tacoma rehab hospital gets new interim boss and final certification
- Cantwell talks healthcare, pre-existing conditions at MultiCare Deaconness
- Doctor: 100 patients waiting on Johnny Delashaw licensing decision
- HCA announces new chief medical officer
- UW Medicine to implement single EHR platform
- Photo Tour: CHI Franciscan Rehabilitation Hospital
- Ex-Swedish Health exec sees medical license reinstated
WYOMING
WEST
(California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah)
CALIFORNIA
- Doctors, nurses and insurers are spending big to determine how you’ll get your health care
- Cedars-Sinai Appoints New COO
- California physician pleads not guilty to workers comp fraud, perjury for referring patients to ASC
- Work in health care? Keep an eye on these five California bills that could become law
- California hospital shuts down, new operator hopes to reopen facility
- California hospital settlement reinstalls staff, bylaws, leadership from early 2016
- Pharmas call off price hikes after California law forces new warnings: report
- Large Medical Groups Join California’s Manifest MedEx Network
- Construction delays plague California hospital expansion
- California needs more mental health professionals – and the shortage will get worse, experts say
- Verity Health may sell St. Vincent and its other hospitals
- Blue Shield of California pushes for greater interoperability
- PM Pediatrics expanding into California
- Mark Twain Medical Center CEO to resign
- Mary Medical Center to launch expansion, modernization project after nearby hospital closure
- Shuttered California hospital sues insurer to cover $42M whistle-blower settlement
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center taps UMass Memorial exec as COO
COLORADO
- Community support has St. Vincent hospital in Leadville back on solid financial footing
- Community Hospital expands orthopedic practice, welcomes 2 spine surgeons
- Sterling Regional MedCenter wins top honor among peers
- Vail Health officials working to control costs and retain independence
HAWAII
- AlohaCare launches $5M community investment program
- University of Hawaii medical school helps address physician shortage
- UH Hilo Doctor of Nursing Practice now an established program
NEVADA
- Dignity Health showcases clean energy leadership in Nevada
- Patients in limbo after vandals hit air conditioning unit at Las Vegas medical center
- Las Vegas fares well in prescription drug price comparison
- New mobile health clinic to help seniors in Las Vegas Valley
UTAH
